The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic: Volume 58 (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series) - Softcover

Book 19 of 41: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

Dorais, Louis-Jacques

 
9780773544451: The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic: Volume 58 (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0773544453 ISBN 13: 9780773544451
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Louis-Jacques Dorais is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval.

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Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0773544453
ISBN 13 
9780773544451
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
397

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