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The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)

By Louis-Jacques Dorais

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0773536469, 9780773536463, 9780773581623, 0773581626
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2537149 bytes)
Series
McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series (Book 58)
Edition
1
Pages
397\409
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

The culmination of forty years of research, The Language of the Inuit maps the geographical distribution and linguistic differences between the Eskaleut and Inuit languages and dialects. Providing details about aspects of comparative phonology, grammar, and lexicon as well as Inuit prehistory and historical evolution, Louis-Jacques Dorais shows the effects of bilingualism, literacy, and formal education on Inuit language and considers its present status and future. An enormous task, masterfully accomplished, The Language of the Inuit is not only an anthropological and linguistic study of a language and the broad social and cultural contexts where it is spoken but a history of the language's speakers.

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