NWT RESEARCH DATABASE

Principal Investigator: Hart, Elisa J.
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991
Summary: In this ongoing project to determine the location and nature of heritage sites, the researcher has interviewed 46 elders and 304 sites have been identified. In 1994, the researcher will verify the information provided with the elders. Verification of information will include: the spelling of traditional place names and traditional words, information on traditionally used places, identifying people...

Principal Investigator: Kritsch, Ingrid D.
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: Phase III of the Gwichya Gwich'in Place Names Project seeks to complete the data collection portion of the study by recording the place names for the remaining area, the Mackenzie Delta. As in previous years, the traditional trails, resource harvesting locations, sacred sites, campsites, and historic cabin sites will also be documented....

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....

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...

Principal Investigator: Brodhead, Dal
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The research is comprised of two broad elements: an activity review and an impact analysis. The review will focus on the role of the Agreement with regard to language needs and services in the NWT. The impact analysis will assess the short-term impact of the Agreement on the various stakeholders as well as the longer-term effects of the program development and implementation activities....

Principal Investigator: Shearwood, Perry
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1990
Summary: The researcher will conduct interviews and ask people what they use reading and writing for....

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....

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...

Principal Investigator: Nowak, Elke
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The Researcher will conduct purely grammatical research by gathering information on the social and political situation of Inuktitut: what changes and/or developments have taken place during the last four years? What is the situation in schools like, what kind of teaching material is available? What is the attitude of young people (under 30 years) toward the language?...

Principal Investigator: Berge, Anna
Licensed Year(s): 1992 1991
Summary: The Researcher will use informants to collect data on Inuktitut language. The data will be used for the completion of the material for the Inuktitut syntax course and as the basis of the analysis of Inuktitut sentence structure and the development of syntactic theory....