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48 record(s) found with the tag "linguistics" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Policy and Planning for Ancestral language literacy in Inuvialuit and Gwich'in communities.
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...
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...
Dogrib Phonology and Variation
Principal Investigator: Causely, Trisha
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: The research involves two months of fieldwork in the N.W.T. where I will be consulting with native speaker consultants of different dialect and generational groups. Rae-Edzo is the largest of the Dogrib communities, and speakers from all of the different communities are represented there. Initial data collection will come from interviews with speakers in Rae-Edzo, and possibly in other Dogrib co...
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: The research involves two months of fieldwork in the N.W.T. where I will be consulting with native speaker consultants of different dialect and generational groups. Rae-Edzo is the largest of the Dogrib communities, and speakers from all of the different communities are represented there. Initial data collection will come from interviews with speakers in Rae-Edzo, and possibly in other Dogrib co...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Syntactic Structures in Inuktitut
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?...
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?...
Studies in Inuktitut Syntax
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....
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....
Patterns of Formal Structure in Inuktitut Texts
Principal Investigator: Ireland, Jeanette
Licensed Year(s): 1990 1989 1988
Summary: Jeanette Ireland will continue collecting oral Inuit stories from elders of various eastern Arctic communities and written Inuit textbooks. The researcher hopes to improve approaches to the study of Inuktitut texts, oral and written, as literature representative of Inuit perceptions of world issues and social interaction....
Licensed Year(s): 1990 1989 1988
Summary: Jeanette Ireland will continue collecting oral Inuit stories from elders of various eastern Arctic communities and written Inuit textbooks. The researcher hopes to improve approaches to the study of Inuktitut texts, oral and written, as literature representative of Inuit perceptions of world issues and social interaction....
Inuktitut Morphemes Used by Inuit Children: Igloolik, N.W.T.
Principal Investigator: Tigullaraq, Elijah
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Elijah Tigullaraq and Ooloota Maatiusi will be interviewing children in Igloolik aged 2 to 5 to study Inuktitut morphemes. They will read wordless story books to the children and will get them to tell the story again in their own words. They will also have the children draw pictures and talk about their drawings. All conversations will be in Inuktitut. All parents will be given a consent form to ...
Licensed Year(s): 1989
Summary: Elijah Tigullaraq and Ooloota Maatiusi will be interviewing children in Igloolik aged 2 to 5 to study Inuktitut morphemes. They will read wordless story books to the children and will get them to tell the story again in their own words. They will also have the children draw pictures and talk about their drawings. All conversations will be in Inuktitut. All parents will be given a consent form to ...
Verification of North Baffin Linguistic Forms
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....
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....
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