Principal Investigator:Welch, Nicholas D S Licensed Year(s):
2013
20092007 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...
Principal Investigator:Jaker, Alessandro M Licensed Year(s):201420132012200920082007
2005
Summary:
The Dogrib Verbal Paradigms Project will be to collect lists of verb-forms in the Dogrib language. These lists (Paradigms) will be used both by linguists to construct a formal analysis, and by teachers of Dogrib to promote literacy and language maintenance. The researcher will pay particular attention to the dialect spoken in and around Yellowknife, which has to date received less attention than...
Principal Investigator:Marinakis, Aliki Licensed Year(s):
2001
Summary:
The research team will travel to Rae-Edzo by air and road, in order to collaborate with the local dictionary working group. The primary activities of the team will include assisting the working group on the collection, and computer inputting, of lexical and grammatical information on the Dogrib language....
Principal Investigator:Causely, Trisha Licensed Year(s):
1996
Summary:
The research involves two months of fieldwork in the N.W.T. where I will be consulting with native speaker consultants of different dialect and generational groups. Rae-Edzo is the largest of the Dogrib communities, and speakers from all of the different communities are represented there. Initial data collection will come from interviews with speakers in Rae-Edzo, and possibly in other Dogrib co...
Principal Investigator:Ackroyd, Linda Licensed Year(s):
1977
Summary:
To develop a Dogrib grammar and dictionary to assist in the development of teaching materials....