Time in child Inuktitut : a developmental study of an Eskimo-Aleut language / by Mary D. Swift.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Swift, Mary D., 1965-

Series:

Studies on language acquisition ; 24.

Studies on language acquisition ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inuktitut language--Temporal constructions.

Inuktitut language.

Inuktitut language--Acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : M. de Gruyter, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, it makes a unique contribution to the tense-aspect acquisition literature with an account of children's development of a temporal system that is fundamentally different from those found in languages previously studied. Drawing on spontaneous speech data collected longitudinally 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 the children's communicative interactions with siblings, peers and caretakers during the early stages of language development.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Inuktitut

Chapter 3. Time reference in Inuktitut

Chapter 4. The development of time reference in child language: A review of the literature

Chapter 5. Methodology

Chapter 6. Early verb development in Inuktitut

Chapter 7. Zero-marked verbs in early Inuktitut

Chapter 8. Aspectual suffixes in early Inuktitut

Chapter 9. Future temporal remoteness in early Inuktitut

Chapter 10. Past temporal remoteness in early Inuktitut

Chapter 11. Temporal adverbials and temporal clause coordination in early Inuktitut

Chapter 12. Summary and conclusions

Back matter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

PhD Dissertation University of Rochester 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 296-312) and index.

ISBN:

9786613396488

9781283396486

1283396483

9783110197419

3110197413

OCLC:

476120253