Time in Child Inuktitut
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Time in Child Inuktitut

A Developmental Study of an Eskimo-Aleut Language

  1. 327 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Time in Child Inuktitut

A Developmental Study of an Eskimo-Aleut Language

About this book

This book presents a study of the development of time reference in young children acquiring Inuktitut as a first language. The first such study of an Eskimo-Aleut language, its account of children's development of time reference in a system that is fundamentally different from those found in languages previously studied makes a unique contribution to the literature on the acquisition of tense and aspect. Drawing on longitudinal spontaneous speech data from eight Inuit children between 2 and 3-and-a-half years old, this study analyzes the temporal structures, their meanings and context of use in children's communicative interactions with siblings, peers and caretakers during the early stages of language development. The comprehensive study of previously unexplored temporal phenomena and its unprecedented findings makes this book an important resource for researchers, teachers and students of child language development, especially the development of time reference. In addition, the documentation of the Inuktitut temporal system, especially as used in conversational speech, will be of interest to researchers of time reference.

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Yes, you can access Time in Child Inuktitut by Mary D. Swift in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Langues et linguistique & Sémantique linguistique. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9783110181203
eBook ISBN
9783110197419
Edition
1
Topic
Langues et linguistique
Subtopic
Sémantique linguistique

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. Chapter 1. Introduction
  4. Chapter 2. Inuktitut
  5. Chapter 3. Time reference in Inuktitut
  6. Chapter 4. The development of time reference in child language: A review of the literature
  7. Chapter 5. Methodology
  8. Chapter 6. Early verb development in Inuktitut
  9. Chapter 7. Zero-marked verbs in early Inuktitut
  10. Chapter 8. Aspectual suffixes in early Inuktitut
  11. Chapter 9. Future temporal remoteness in early Inuktitut
  12. Chapter 10. Past temporal remoteness in early Inuktitut
  13. Chapter 11. Temporal adverbials and temporal clause coordination in early Inuktitut
  14. Chapter 12. Summary and conclusions
  15. Backmatter