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.

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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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497.1LanguageOther languagesNorth American native languagesInuit, Yupik, Aleut languages
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PM62 .H26Language and LiteratureHyperborean, Native American, and artificial languagesHyperborean, Indian, and artificial languagesHyperborean languages of Arctic Asia and America

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