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Light verbs and predicate types in Tlicho Yatii
Principal Investigator: Welch, Nicholas D S
Licensed Year(s): 2013 2009 2007
Summary: The grammar of Tlicho Yatii encodes a difference between permanent properties of individuals (individual-level predicates), and temporary, limited ones (stage-level predicates). This project seeks to discover whether this difference comes from lexical meaning or syntactic structure. If the latter, the principal researcher expects that sentences with stage-level predicates such as 'Michel has a col...


Dogrib Language Documentation and Revitalization in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Principal Investigator: Jaker, Alessandro M
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013 2012 2009 2008 2007 2005
Summary: The goal of this research is to produce an intermediate-level Dogrib language reader, for young people who have some basic knowledge of the language but are still struggling with more difficult or complex forms. The stories themselves will focus on local legends, and local history of the Yellowknives Dene. Thus, the goals are both to increase young people's competence in Dogrib, and make traditi...


Dogrib Textual Studies
Principal Investigator: Saxon, Leslie A.
Licensed Year(s): 2005 2004 2003
Summary: This research on stories of Dogrib travel and language will result in a book/CD for Dogrib community members. Dogrib elders and others will be interviewed in the research process, and community language workers will be trained. The language research will...


Perspective on Mental Health and Illness by Selected Dogrib Women Patients
Principal Investigator: Crawford, Lorie
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The purpose of this research is to identify selective Dogrib perspectives surrounding mental health and illness. Women from Dogrib communities who are currently receiving treatment for a long term mental illness will be interviewed to learn their perceptions of need for treatment, what works, what doesn't, what their expectations are, and how their familial relationships have shifted over the cou...


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