Principal Investigator:Jaker, Alessandro M Licensed Year(s):
2020
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4602.
The ultimate goal of this study is to provide evidence for "metrical structure". That is, the idea that syllables in the language are organized into small groups called "feet", specifically what are called "iambic feet", which have the form (weak-strong)(weak-strong). There is evidence from looking at verb paradigms, ...
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...