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Transforming the Images: Ergativity and Transitivity in Inuktitut (Eskimo)

By Elke Nowak

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
1996
ISBN
9783110808926, 9783110149807
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10877226 bytes)
Series
Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT]; 15
Pages
320\324
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-20 18:46:08

Description

Abbreviations Acknowledgements 1. The pattern of investigation 1.1. Why, and for what purpose, would one investigate a language like Inuktitut 1.2. So what is the topic of this investigation? 2. First acquaintance with Inuktitut: groundwork for meeting the problem 2.1. Genetic affiliations 2.2. History of research 2.3. Orthography and standard 3. A first grammar 3.1. Preliminary considerations 3.2. A traditional description of Inuktitut 4. Historiography 4.1. A look at the history of the discipline 4.2. Samuel Kleinschmidt’s grammar 4.3. Nominality 5. Ergativity 5.1. Preliminaries 5.2. The dilemma of subject and object 5.3. Ergativity 5.4. Descriptive levels of sentence structure 6. Transitivity 6.1. Transitivity 6.2. Transitivity in verbal complexes 6.3. Transitivity in sentences 6.4. Word classes 6.5. Properties of predicative expressions 7. Ergativity in Inuktitut 7.0. Outline of the investigation 7.1. Ergativity in Inuktitut 7.2. Subjects in Inuktitut 7.3. Objects in Inuktitut 8. Transforming the images 8.1. Conclusion 8.2. Parva grammatica Notes References Index of names Index of subjects

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