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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...


Television, Aboriginal Ways of Knowing and the Health of Planet Earth
Principal Investigator: Good, Jennifer
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher will study the programming of IBC and TVNC and spend time with some of the Inuit people of the North in order to assess the effectiveness of Inuit television in the transmission of Inuit language, values, and traditions....


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...


The Acquisition of English Speech Acts by Native Speakers of Inuktitut
Principal Investigator: Pater, Joseph
Licensed Year(s): 1991
Summary: The Researcher will investigate how the cultural background of Native speakers of Inuktitut influences their use of the English language....


Native Education as Cultural Brokerage: Learning in an Inuit Community
Principal Investigator: Stairs, Arlene
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991 1990 1988
Summary: The study concerns processes of learning in an Inuit community today. It will focus on various learning settings (e.g. land, settlement, school) and groups of learners (e.g. adults learning new skills, school students). Special attention will be given to two features of the ongoing cultural brokerage between Inuit and western models of learning -- native educator roles and bridging language forms....


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 #2411
Principal Investigator: Saint-Aubin, Danielle
Licensed Year(s): 1978
Summary: A follow-up to a 1976 study of how the Inuit language deals with foreign concepts particularly those borrowed via contact with the English language....


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....


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