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Tue May 26 1998

Sum: Inuktitut Spatial Terms

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    Message 1: Inuktitut spatial terms

     Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 11:58:27 -0300 (ADT)
    From: Hilary Young <ah641chebucto.ns.ca>
    Subject: Inuktitut spatial terms


    A few weeks ago I posted a query to list regarding Inuktitut spatial terms. I have since received many responses. Below is the original query followed by a list of recommended references. Thanks again to all who took the time to respond.



    I was hoping someone out there could help me with my research. I'm beginning a project on Inuktitut spatial terms and am looking for any resources that might be useful. In particular, I'll be exploring the 'in front of'/'behind' relation in a Cognitive Grammar framework. >

    >I have Spalding's Inuktitut grammar, Fortescue's West Greenlandic grammar, >Denny's article on spatial deixis, and I know of Cornillac's 'Systematiqye >des contructions lexicales en inuktitut', Paillet's 'Deixis et >representation de l'espace en Inuktitut' and Lowe's 'De l'espace au temps >en Inuktitut'. > >If anyone knows of other resources on spatial terms in eastern arctic >languages (or related), I'd appreciate hearing from you.



    Suggested references include the following:

    Allen, Shanley. 1996. Aspects of Argument Structure Alternation in Inuktitut. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

    Bergsland's West Greenlandic Dictionary

    Bravo, Michael T. 1996. "The Accuracy of Ethnoscience: A Study of Inuit Cartography and Cross-Cultural Commensurability." In Manchester Papers in Social Anthropology, 2, 36 pp.

    Dorais, Louis-Jacques. 1996. La parole inuit. Ed. Peeters

    Fortescue, Michael. article on space in Greenlandic in: Man and Society Series.

    Fortescue, Jacobson and Kaplan. 1994. Comparative Eskimo Dictionary. Alaska Native Language Centre.

    Fuchs, Anna. 1993. Remarks on Deixis. Heidelberg: Julius Groos Verlag.

    Jacobson, Steven. 1984. "Semantics and Morphology of Demonstratives in Central Yup'ik Eskimo." In Etudes Inuit Studies, Vol 8, suppl.

    Jacobson, Steven. 1995. Central Alaskan Yup'ik Textbook.

    Mallon, Mick. 1993. Introductory Inuktitut. Vols 1, 2. Ittukuluuk Language Programs. Victoria.

    Menovschikov. 1976. "On Treatments of Spatial Expressions in Aleut." in Papers on Eskimo and Aleut Linguistics. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.

    Nowak, Elke. Transforming the Images - Ergativity and Transitivity in Inuktitut.

    deReuse, William Joseph. Siberian Yupik Eskimo: The Language and its Contacts with Chukchi.

    Schlegloff, Emmanuel. 1972. "Notes on a Conversational Practice: Formulating Place." In David Sudnow (ed.) Studies in Social Interaction. New York: Free Press.

    Schult-Lorentzen. Dictionary and Grammar.

    Senft, G. 1997. Referring to Space. Oxford: Oxford U. Press



    Hilary Young Rice University