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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828027603321

Autore

Swift Mary D. <1965->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-283-39648-3

9786613396488

3-11-019741-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages)

Collana

Studies on language acquisition ; ; 24

Disciplina

497/.12

Soggetti

Inuktitut dialect - Temporal constructions

Inuktitut dialect - Acquisition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.