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Documenting Inuinnaqtun Grammar
Principal Investigator: Compton, Richard J
Licensed Year(s): 2021
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.4525. The objective of this project is to better understand and document the grammar of Inuinnaqtun. While extensive research has been carried out on European languages (especially English), less is known about the properties and structures found in other languages, including Inuinnaqtun. The goals of this project include d...


Acquisition of Specificity in Inuktitut; Phrase Structure and Functional Categories in Inuktitut
Principal Investigator: Manga, Louise
Licensed Year(s): 1994 1993 1992
Summary: To finish the study on the acquisition of specificity, I will conduct language games with children (ages 2.5, 3.5, 5, 8) with the help of a translator. Secondly, I will analyze structure and movement in Inuktituk by obtaining grammaticality judgements from native Inuktitut speakers. This would be primarily for simple sentences and sentences with embedded sentential complements....


Discourse Practices in the Baffin Region
Principal Investigator: Dorais, Louis-Jacques
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: The research aims at understanding which language(s) are spoken by the Iqaluit and Lake Harbour residents in different circumstances of life: at school, at work, within their family, at the store, etc. The researchers also seek to understand how the use of a particular language when speaking to a particular person reflects cultural viewpoint. Also the researchers seek to understand how school chil...


A Grammar of West Greenlandic
Principal Investigator: Sadock, Jerrold M.
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher has been working on a scientific grammar of the language of West Greenland, which is closely related to the Inuit dialects of the NWT, and in particular, those of Baffin Island. The aim of the the grammar is to avoid the bias of European languages and be truer to the form of this language itself. The researcher will discuss the grammar with educators and other specialists in Iqalu...


Licence #2511
Principal Investigator: Briggs, Jean L.
Licensed Year(s): 1979
Summary: To continue a long term linguistics study and a study of Inuit interpersonal games. The purpose of the first study is to publish a dictionary of the Qipisa dialect. The second study will supply data to expand previous articles on the games into a book....


Licence #2068
Principal Investigator: Creider, C.A.
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: Study of Inuit Linguistics - the syntactic processes which are used for relative clauses....


Licence #2067
Principal Investigator: Dorais, Louis-Jacques
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: Linguistic study of the Repulse Bay dialect....


Licence #2038
Principal Investigator: Saint-Aubin, Danielle
Licensed Year(s): 1976
Summary: Linguistic Study: an examination of how the Inuit language deals with foreign concepts and in particular with these borrowed via contact with English....


Licence #1916
Principal Investigator: Dorais, L.
Licensed Year(s): 1975
Summary: Linguistic study of Eskimo dialects....


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