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Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions
Author(s): Anna Berge (Author)
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date: 1 July 2011
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 464 pages
- ISBN-10: 0803216459
- ISBN-13: 9780803216457
Book Description
West Greenlandic Eskimo, a part of the Eskimo-Aleut language family spoken all across the Arctic, is primarily found among the Native peoples of central west Greenland. In this highly nuanced study of West Greenlandic, linguist Anna Berge examines how the speaker’s role affects syntactic structures within discourse. Also included are transcripts of conversations with fluent Native speakers, providing a practical context in which to examine these grammatical questions. This study was the winner of the prestigious Mary R. Haas Award, presented annually by the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, the highest award given in the study of Native languages.
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About the Author
Anna Berge is an associate professor of linguistics in the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is the coauthor of Niigugis Mataliin Tunuxtazangis/How the Atkans Talk: A Conversational Grammar.
