Principal Investigator:Shimoyama, Junko Licensed Year(s):
2018
20172016 Summary:
The purpose of this research project is to understand how the meanings of sentences are related to the meanings of individual words and the way words are combined in different languages. ‘Compositionality’, a word in the title of this project, means how words are combined.
Because a language is too large to study everything at once, the research team will study a type of relative clause. An exa...
Principal Investigator:Saxon, Leslie A. Licensed Year(s):2015201420132011
2009
Summary:
Currently available are print dictionaries of the Tlîchô language (1995, 1996) and an on-line multimedia dictionary (http://tlicho.ling.uvic.ca/), all supported by the Tlîchô Community Services Agency, the long-time community research partner. Much work remains to be done to make the on-line dictionary truly "multimedia" through expansion of the database and the addition of more sound and video in...
Principal Investigator:Welch, Nicholas D S Licensed Year(s):20132009
2007
Summary:
The objective of this work is to investigate auxiliary verb use in Tlicho Yatii. The knowledge will then be compared to auxiliary verbs in other Northern Athabaskan languages. This research is important because Northern Athabaskan languages are threatened by English. Research may aid the preservation of these languages, which is important both to cultural pride and to linguistic diversity. Documen...