Principal Investigator:Jaker, Alessandro M Licensed Year(s):
2017
2016 Summary:
The goal of this project is to better understand the verb system of the Chipewyan dialects native to the area north and east of Great Slave Lake--these dialects are the most different from all other Chipewyan (Dene Suline) dialects, and are referred to (by many speakers) as Tetsot'ine Yatie. These dialects are unique in having lost many intervocalic consonants that are still pronounced in the sout...
Principal Investigator:Jaker, Alessandro M Licensed Year(s):2014201320122009
2008
20072005 Summary:
This licence was issued for the scientific research application # 730.
The objective of this research is to better understand the structure of Dogrib verbs, to determine exceptions to the normal pattern in Dogrib verbs, and to compare Dogrib verbs to complex verbs in other languages.
The researcher will work with native speakers of Dogrib in the Yellowknife area and collect verb forms, meet...