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Author: Jane Christian
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1977-01-01
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 1772821985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of social cognitive patterning from the perspective of a Mackenzie drainage Dene community with additional discussion of related topics, including communication, learning, and classification.
Author: Ivan Kalmár
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1772822124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the circumstances under which a speaker chooses one of three possible Inuktitut sentence types containing both subject and object. This volume also includes a grammatical outline of the North Baffin Island dialect.
Author: Kenn Harper
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1772822167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume compares and contrasts the derivational suffixes of the Cumberland Peninsula and North Baffin Island Inuit dialects and presents them in dictionary format with alphabetized variants and examples. Two appendices describe the use of selected derivational suffixes to mark verb tense and summarize all suffix base entries included in the dictionary.
Author: Eric P. Hamp
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1772822132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEric P. Hamp reconsiders the phonological features of the Proto-Algonquian terms for “sun” and “day” and offers a new reconstruction. Robert Howren provides a classic phonemic description of Dogrib phonology, examining selected phonological features from the perspective of generative phonological theory. Brenda M. Lowery discusses Blackfoot phonology. Richard Walker continues the work of Father A. G. Morice in his study Central Carrier phonemics. Quindel King contributes a paper on the Chilcotin language.
Author: Roger Gilstrap
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 1772822078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author compares and contrasts the lexicon, phonology, and grammar of dialects spoken in five northwestern Quebec Algonquin communities. Isoglosses of contrasting features are provided in addition to an appendix of supplementary information.
Author: John Asher Dunn
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 1772822175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA general introduction to the phonology, morphology, and syntax of contemporary Coast Tsimshian. The grammar provided helps explain the practical orthography used, pronunciation and sound changes, word formation, and syntax.
Author: John C. Rath
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1980-01-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1772822302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains a listing of approximately 2,650 roots from the various North Waskashan lanugages, namely Heiltsuk (Bella Bella and Klemtu), Oowekyala (Rivers Inlet), Haisla (Kitimat) and Kwakwala (Alert Bay, Port Hardy, etc.). Each root is illustrated with lexical words from the language where it is represented, cognate words being brought together under a single entry and cross-referenced to each other as they occur at different points in the alphabetical order. The root list is preceded by concise phonologies of each language and an exposition of the techniques used to isolate roots in North Wakashan.
Author: William Hugh Jansen
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1772822094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA discussion of the different ways in which the Inuit of Rankin Inlet have chosen to adapt to a changing economy.
Author: James Garth Taylor
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1980-01-01
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1772822264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines Eastern Cree canoe construction from a variety of anthropological and historical perspectives. The fully detailed and illustrated technical aspects of canoe construction are combined with a description of the social and economic factors, the canoe builder’s view of these activities through myth and song and a discussion of the continuity and change in all aspects of traditional canoe construction.
Author: Joan Ryan
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1980-01-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1772822248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains papers presented at the Fifth Annual Congress of the Canadian Ethnology Society (London, 1978) with a particular emphasis on matters relating to ethnicity.
