The language of the Inuit syntax, semantics, and society in the Arctic / Louis-Jacques Dorais.
| Author/creator | Dorais, Louis-Jacques, 1945- |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, |
| Description | xii, 396 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Subjects |
| Series | McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 58 |
| Contents | Introduction -- The Eskaleut family of languages -- The Inuit language -- The Nunavik Dialect of Inukitut -- The prehistory of the Inuit language -- Historical sources and linguistic change -- Semantics, neology, and oral change -- Literacy and formal education -- Language contact and bilingualism -- The current status of the Inuit Language -- Conclusion : language and identity in the arctic -- Appendices. The possessive noun declension (Nunavik Inuktitut) ; The grammatical endings of verbs (Nunavik Inuktitut) ; Categories of lexical affixes with Nunavik Inuktitut examples ; Inuit first and home languages in Inuit nunaat (Canada) in 2006. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010294950 |
| ISBN | 9780773536463 |
| ISBN | 0773536469 |
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