Inuit, Yupik & Unangax Languages Cloth

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This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangax language family - previously also known as Eskimo-Aleut, Eskaleut, or Inuit-Yupik-Unangan - whose Arctic homelands stretch from Eastern Siberia to Eastern Greenland. The family has featured prominently in the linguistic literature on issues such as polysynthesis, ergativity, prosody, and the interface between morphology, syntax, and semantics.The chapters in this bookmake accessible a body of literature fragmented by linguistic boundaries, synthesizing existing work into accessible overviews as well as presenting novel data and research. Part I introduces the maincharacteristics, origins, and linguistic documentation of the language family, as well as providing maps and speaker estimates for all varieties. It also explores language status, maintenance, and revitalization. Part II consists of grammatical overviews of the major languages and dialect groups: Unangam Tunuu, Sirenik, Central Siberian Yupik, Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Alutiiq, Alaskan Iñupiaq, Western Canadian Inuktun, Eastern Canadian Inuktitut, and Kalaallisut; the only recognizedlanguage missing is Naukan, being too sparsely documented to produce a comparative overview. Part III explores topics in phonetics and phonology, language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and ethnolinguistics, aswell as the historical sources of derivational affixes. It also includes several case studies on different aspects of morphosyntax, especially the use of the antipassive construction across different varieties, and describes the effect of language ideologies on the use of Yupik in two communities. Finally, it contains an in-depth discussion of the position of Sirenik in the family tree.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-03-25
FormatInbunden
Antal sidor752
FörlagOxford University Press
ISBN9780198837930

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Anja Arnhold is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta. She works primarily on the phonetics and phonology of languages in the Uralic and the Inuit-Yupik-Unangax families, beginning with her MA thesis on Kalaallisut. Her core research is on how prosody interacts with morphosyntax in the expression of focus, and how this differs between languages. She is a co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Linguistics and a member of theeditorial boards of Phonological Data and Analysis and the Journal of Uralic Linguistics.Anna Berge is Professor of Linguistics at the Alaska Native Language Center and Director of the Alaska Native Language Archive at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her early work explored Baffin Island Inuktitut and West Greenlandic Kalaallisut syntax and discourse, and has more recently focused on Unangam Tunuu, Alutiiq, and Sirenik. Her work is largely descriptive and includes language documentation and adult language learning materials for revitalization and stabilization, with an emphasison morphosyntax; she also works on the historical reconstruction of the Inuit-Yupik-Unangax language family and analyses linguistic evidence of prehistoric language contact.Naja Blytmann Trondhjem has been Associate Professor of Greenlandic and Arctic Studies at the University of Copenhagen since 2012, and Director of the Language Research Center at Ilisimatusarfik since 2021. She leads terminology workshops developing Greenlandic grammatical terms based on Danish and English, and has co-organized comparative seminars on Greenlandic, Danish, and English, focusing on valency, tense, case, and prepositions. Her research investigates aspectual and tense suffixes,inherent valency, and valency changes through suffixation. She also participates in a project exploring decolonizing perspectives on internal challenges related to dialect use.