
Some aspects of the grammar of the Eskimo dialects of Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island
by Kenn Harper
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This study analyses some of the grammar of the two dialectal areas of Central Arctic: Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island. While not dealing in detail with all aspects of the Inuit grammar, it concentrates on an analysis of noun and verb structures. It also includes the use of the dual person.Tags
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Kenn Harper has lived in the Arctic for over thirty years in Eskimo communities in the Baffin Region & in Qaanaaq, Greenland. He has worked as a teacher, development officer, historian, linguist, & businessman. He speaks Inuktitut, the Eskimo language of the eastern Canadian Arctic, & has written extensively on northern history & the Inuktitut show more language. He now lives in Iqaluit, capital of the new Arctic territory of Nunavut, & was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Nonfiction, Anthropology
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- 497.1 — Language Other languages North American native languages Inuit, Yupik, Aleut languages
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- PM62 .H26 — Language and Literature Hyperborean, Native American, and artificial languages Hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages Hyperborean languages of Arctic Asia and America
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