NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Stagg Peterson, Shelley
Licensed Year(s): 2024 2023 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5777. Over the next seven years and using collaborative action research methods, research practitioners (e.g., early childhood educators, teachers, parents/caregivers, and community members) from Indigenous communities in Canada and abroad will work with university researchers to develop a toolkit of theoretical approaches...

Principal Investigator: Coates, Alice
Licensed Year(s): 2022
Summary: This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5360. The main objective of the study is to provide context for a later investigation into the attitudes of adolescent Dene language learners to the language. This ‘context’ takes the form of answers to a short survey, designed to elicit answers about the importance of the language to community members and the reasons for t...

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: Saxon, Leslie A.
Licensed Year(s): 2019
Summary: The goals of language revitalization can be met through narrative revitalization, an approach to language study using the creative, mental, and spiritual dimensions of stories to keep us learning. By studying stories, the research team create memorable and continually growing connections to both language and place. This project will accomplish two overall goals: 1) to connect place and people soci...

Principal Investigator: Shimoyama, Junko
Licensed Year(s): 2018 2017 2016
Summary: The purpose of this research project is to understand how the meanings of sentences are related to the meanings of individual words and the way words are combined in different languages. ‘Compositionality’, a word in the title of this project, means how words are combined. Because a language is too large to study everything at once, the research team will study a type of relative clause. An exa...

Principal Investigator: Shiri, Ali
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2016 2015
Summary: Specific objectives are to: 1) investigate and identify the information needs and information seeking behaviour of community members in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR); 2) develop a digital library of information resources; 3) explore appropriate methodologies for treatment of cultural heritage information; 4) create a culturally appropriate metadata framework as a basis for resource descri...

Principal Investigator: Simmons, Deborah L
Licensed Year(s): 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
Summary: As the community makes the transition to self-government, there has been an increased interest in language documentation through stories, song, and concepts of place in order to better understand what Dene government means. Governance thus forms one focal point of this research. The research team are particularly interested in the areas of variation, change and continuity in language, stories, son...

Principal Investigator: Rice, Faun E
Licensed Year(s): 2015
Summary: The Principle Investigator aims to produce a useful record and analysis not only for Indigenous populations working towards a similar level of independence, but also for Canadian scholars, institutions, and individuals working with First Nations, Metis, or Inuit populations that will help them ensure that their practices are aiding decolonization. This project will involve ethnographic field r...

Principal Investigator: Berthelin, Signe Rix
Licensed Year(s): 2015 2014
Summary: Every language has its own system for talking about things. The Principle Investigator (PI) wishes to study how to talk about ‘modal meanings’ in Inuvialuktun. Examples of modal suffixes in Uummarmiutun are 'huknaq', ‘viaq’, 'lla', 'rakrari' and 'rukrau'. English examples are 'must', 'might' and 'can'. I am interested in studying a) what we say if we use suffixes like 'viaq' or 'rukrau' in a sente...

Principal Investigator: Tutcho, Laura J
Licensed Year(s): 2014
Summary: This project will include a booklet, including a music sheet, of the late Eliza Blondin’s story and her song. The materials will be digitized and saved to a USB. This project is part of a Master degree in Indigenous language Revitalization The Principal Investigator (PI) will interview the two (or more) participants individually using the questions in the attachment. Some of the questions are q...