The Language of the Inuit; Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic

Dorais, Louis-Jacques

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ISBN 10: 0773536469 ISBN 13: 9780773536463

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal & Kingston, 2010

Language: English

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The Language of the Inuit; Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic

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McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal & Kingston

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2010

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English

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0773536469

ISBN 13

9780773536463

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

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