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This chapter provides a linguistic perspective on recent research by anthropologists and human geographers about indigenous sea ice terms in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut (Labrador), providing a basic introduction to pertinent linguistic properties of Inuktitut and arguing that they shed further light on Inuit sea ice knowledge. A number of sea ice terms from the largely unknown Utkuhiksalingmiut dialect...
This chapter provides a linguistic perspective on recent research by anthropologists and human geographers about indigenous sea ice terms in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut (Labrador), providing a basic introduction to pertinent linguistic properties of Inuktitut and arguing that they shed further light on Inuit sea ice knowledge. A number of sea ice terms from the largely unknown Utkuhiksalingmiut dialect...
This article examines a range of data concerning noun incorporation in Inuktitut. A number of facts are known in the linguistic literature of Inuit languages but are often not addressed in noun incorporation analyses. Possessor stranding is not permitted in noun incorporation, with the exception of a subclass of incorporating verbs which describe location and direction. Names are readily incorporated,...
This paper argues that the phenomenon of noun incorporation in Inuktitut derives from the fact that the set of verbs involved are all light verbs in the sense of being functional elements excluding lexical or root material. Verbs found in noun incorporation in Inuktitut are in little v and syntactically Merge with a nominal root complement. A parameter which requires that the first root must syntactically...
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