In this Book
- Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
- Series: Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas
summary
West Greenlandic Eskimo, a part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family spoken all across the Arctic, is primarily found among the Native peoples of central west Greenland. In this highly nuanced study of West Greenlandic, linguist Anna Berge examines how the speaker’s role affects syntactic structures within discourse. Also included are transcripts of conversations with fluent Native speakers, providing a practical context in which to examine these grammatical questions.
This study was the winner of the prestigious Mary R. Haas Award, presented annually by the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, the highest award given in the study of Native languages.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page
- p. iii
- Copyright Page
- pp. iv-vi
- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-viii
- List of Tables
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Orthographic Conventions
- pp. xvi-xviii
- 1 Introduction
- pp. 1-30
- 5 Conclusion
- pp. 273-281
- References
- pp. 425-432
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803226869
Related ISBN(s)
9780803216457
MARC Record
OCLC
742517462
Pages
464
Launched on MUSE
2012-08-22
Language
English
Open Access
No