NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

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: Rice, Keren
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 is particularly interested in the areas of variation, change and continuity in language, stories, song...

Principal Investigator: Saunders, Susan J
Licensed Year(s): 2013
Summary: The aim of this project is to determine the current status of the Michif language in the North Slave region by surveying Metis community members to find out the level of fluency of community members, their attitudes toward Michif, and their goals for the future of Michif in the community. The information will be compiled into a Strategic Language Plan that the community can use to guide its langua...

Principal Investigator: Oehler, Alexander C.
Licensed Year(s): 2011
Summary: At the heart of this research lies the desire to better understand the role of Inuvialuktun (and its revitalization efforts) in the construction of Inuvialuit cultural identity. The objective of the study is to provide a detailed picture of language ideologies and language attitudes surrounding Inuvialuktun among potential and current learners in order to inform the development and design of langu...

Principal Investigator: Jaker, Alessandro M
Licensed Year(s): 2014 2013 2012 2009 2008 2007 2005
Summary: This licence was issued for the scientific research application # 730. The objective of this research is to better understand the structure of Dogrib verbs, to determine exceptions to the normal pattern in Dogrib verbs, and to compare Dogrib verbs to complex verbs in other languages. The researcher will work with native speakers of Dogrib in the Yellowknife area and collect verb forms, meet...

Principal Investigator: Welch, Nicholas D S
Licensed Year(s): 2013 2009 2007
Summary: The objective of this work is to investigate auxiliary verb use in Tlicho Yatii. The knowledge will then be compared to auxiliary verbs in other Northern Athabaskan languages. This research is important because Northern Athabaskan languages are threatened by English. Research may aid the preservation of these languages, which is important both to cultural pride and to linguistic diversity. Documen...

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: Jones, Alana
Licensed Year(s): 1999
Summary: Alana Johns and Carrie Gillon will visit Inuvik for approximately three weeks in June 1999. During this time they will employ a number of speakers of the Siglit and Ummarmiut dialects of Inuktitut for brief one hour sessions. These sessions will either be 1) story collecting where the main purpose is to collect language data, not the content of the story itself. For this reason any story which the...

Principal Investigator: Bourcier, Andre
Licensed Year(s): 1997
Summary: The goal of this project to discuss with the communities what their respective linguistic needs are and to propose a series of recommendations for linguists and cultural officers regarding their linguistic intervention in these communities. The first part of this study will be an assessment of the means made available to the communities by the authorities. The researcher will then try to determine...