NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Lipscomb, David
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Mr. Lipscomb has been collecting information on the Inuktitut dialect spoken in north Baffin from various books. Since the books do not always agree, he wants to talk with someone to find out how the language is now spoken. He is comparing the variation in word structure of the north Baffin dialect with the variation in word structure seen among all the Inuktitut dialects....

Principal Investigator: Chartrand, Jean Philippe
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: to assess the general value placed on the practice of hunting and its interplay with the quantity and quality of Inuktitut usage in various social contexts; to assess how hunting has changed and how changes have affected the Inuit sense of cultural identity...

Principal Investigator: Harnum, Betty
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To complete a study of Inuktitut in the Eastern Arctic and Keewatin with respect to how the language is currently changing. Interviews will be conducted with the informed consent of various community agencies and individuals regarding the development of new words which explains new items and ideas as well as changes in the sounds and sentence structure. Influences from other languages will be ex...

Principal Investigator: Valle, Madelyn Della
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To observe the EATEP ina ction and interview participants of the program, including staff and students. Consent to participate in the interview will be obtained by the researcher after a full explanation of the objectives and an assurance of maintaining confidentiality. Questions will focus on 1)curriculum dev. 2)lang. training 3)pedagogy; & 4)structural set up of the system. This program will ...

Principal Investigator: Wilman, David
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: Research on language acquisition by Inuit children....

Principal Investigator: Muller-Wille, Ludger
Licensed Year(s): 1984
Summary: A project to carry out a survey of Inuit place names that can lead to a systematic place name survey covering all of the Inuit areas in the N.W.T....

Principal Investigator: Fortescue, Michael
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To undertake a study of productive suffixes in the Inuktitut Language to produce a handbook on the interdialect differences in these suffixes to promote better communications between Inuit groups in circumpolar countries....

Principal Investigator: Johnson, Marion
Licensed Year(s): 1980
Summary: To continue a grammatical analysis study program of the Inuktitut Language....

Principal Investigator: Denny, J. Peter
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To study the Inuktitut language specifically related to mathermatics. This will assist in the development of curriculum materials to teach elementary school mathematics in Inuktitut....

Principal Investigator: Linn, George F.
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: To determine pairs of words, one in Inuktitut and the one in English, that have the same meaning; these pairs will be used for a computer processed lexicon. To list words which are in danger of being lost from the Inuktitut language through lack of ice....