Download or read book Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions written by Anna Berge and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington"

Download or read book Alaska Native Language Center Research Papers written by Alaska Native Language Center and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Interethnic Communication written by Ronald Scollon and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The booklet is designed to accompany a videotape (not included here) of the same title in the series "Talking Alaska," and is intended for personal use and use in workshops and other presentations on cross-cultural and interethnic communication. The text can be used with or without the videotape. Introductory sections describe the background of the materials and offer suggestions for their classroom use, including workshop preparation, the initial session, videotape presentation and discussion, post-workshop evaluation, and time considerations. The core of the text discusses basic principles of interethnic communication and related issues: the importance of communication; interethnic communication in Alaska; ethnic stereotyping, particularly in Athabaskan-English interethnic communication; gatekeeping, or making decisions that will affect the social, economic, and geographic mobility of others; communicative styles; and dealing with conflicting styles of politeness. The final section contains specific behavioral recommendations for improving interethnic communication, based on three basic strategies: perception of what is happening in the communication; acceptance that others do not intend to miscommunicate; and repair of miscommunication. (MSE)

Download or read book King Island Tales written by Lawrence D. Kaplan and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 1988 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of 25 narratives presented in the original Inupiaq Eskimo language, with English translations. Includes stories of the community house, hunting, childbirth, entertainment, shamans and hauntings. Includes numerous photographs.

Download or read book A Practical Grammar of the Central Alaskan Yup ik Eskimo Language written by Steven A. Jacobson and published by Utopia. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Yup ik Dialect Atlas and Study written by Steven A. Jacobson and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 1998 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ancient Aleut Personal Names written by Knut Bergsland and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Aleut personal names is presented, derived from census data obtained during a 1790-1792 scientific expedition to the Aleutian Islands. The census contained about 1,500 different Aleut male names from 66 villages, listed alphabetically and interpreted here. Some identifiable female names are also included. The work also provides insight into Aleut culture and values. An introductory section provides background about the expedition, the finding of the manuscripts containing the census information, issues in interpretation of the manuscript data (including spelling variations), an analysis of formal aspects of Aleut names (one-word and phrasal names, word classes and construction, dialectal features, foreign elements), different accounts of naming customs, and a tentative semantic classification of names as referring to human beings, nature, subsistence, social relations, and other elements. The corpus of names is then presented by location. Names are also indexed, and a map of Aleut communities is included. (MSE)

Download or read book Aleut Grammar written by Knut Bergsland and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this grammar is to analyze in some detail the mechanisms of the Aleut language as represented by older speakers and by earlier sources, and is intended for both students of Aleut and linguists in general. An introductory chapter gives background on the language's history, linguistic documentation, Aleut dialects, and outside influences. Subsequent chapters address these topics: phonology (phonemes, phonotactics, internal and external sandhi, contours, and expressive features); morphology (inflection and word classes, derivation/postbases); and syntax (subject and predicate, object, oblique terms, addition and removal of terms, construction of indefiniteness, noun phrases, temporal adverbials, verb phrases, conjoined predicates, clauses of purpose, linked clauses, anterior, conditional, participle clauses, report clauses, sentence connections). Some crucial structural differences from the cognate Eskimo language are discussed in the final chapter. (Contains 52 references.) (MSE)

Download or read book A Dena ina Legacy written by Peter Kalifornsky and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 1991 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of writings (short stories, animal stories, legends, myths, poems and language lessons) compiled by one of the last speakers of the Kenai dialect of the Dena'ina language of Cook Inlet, southern Alaska, Peter Kalifornsky.

Download or read book Aleut Tales and Narratives written by Waldemar Jochelson and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 1990 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recording of Aleut tales and narratives originally collected by Waldemar Jochelson in 1909-1910.

Download or read book One Must Arrive with a Story to Tell written by Eliza Cingarkaq Orr and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tanacross Learners Dictionary written by Gary Holton and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary contains about 2000 English headwords with nearly 4500 Tanacross words and example sentences, as well as numerous examples of verb paradigms. The dictionary also includes a brief introduction to Tanacross grammar, as well as a guide to the Tanacross writing system.

Download or read book Aleut Dictionary written by and published by Fairbanks, Alaska : Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks. This book was released on 1994 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive dictionary draws on ethnographic and linguistic work of the Aleut language and culture dating to 1745. An introductory section explains the dictionary's format, offers a brief historical survey, and contains notes on Aleut phonology and orthography, dialectal differences and developments, Eskimo-Aleut phonological correspondences, and Aleut treatment of Russian words. The main body of the dictionary is in two parts: basic words and derivatives, and suffixes. Following this are problematic words in older sources, appendixes, and an English index, with its own introduction. Appended materials include notes on demonstratives, directions of the wind, positional nouns, numerals, Aleut calendars, kinship terms, Ancient Aleut personal names, baidarka terminology, place names with maps, and loan words. An addendum contains information obtained while the dictionary was being typeset. (MSE)

Download or read book Yup ik Eskimo Dictionary written by and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 2012 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive Yup'ik dictionary in existence, the second edition of this important work now adds extensive research on Central Alaskan Yup'ik, enhancing the forty years of research done by Steven A. Jacobson on the Yup'ik language and dialects. Over these decades, Jacobson has combed through records of explorers, linguists, missionaries, and anyone who has come in contact with the actively migratory Yup'ik people. Combined with information from native Yup'ik speakers, that research has led to a richly detailed dictionary that covers the entire language and all its dialects. The dictionary also offers sections on Yup'ik spelling, early vocabulary, demonstrative words, and important intersections of Yup'ik language and culture such as the kayak, dogsled, parka, and old-style dwellings.

Download or read book Shandaa in My Lifetime written by Belle Herbert and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gwich'in Athabaskan and English. Biography of Athabaskan woman from the village of Chalkyitsik.

Download or read book Engithidong Xugixudhoy written by James M. Kari and published by Alaska Native Language Center. This book was released on 1987 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Ingalik Indian stories from central and northwest Alaska, told by Belle Deacon and translated from Deg Hit'an with text in both languages.

Download or read book A Practical Grammar of the St Lawrence Island Siberian Yupik Eskimo Language written by Steven A. Jacobson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grammer of the Yupik or Yuit language as spoken on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska and in Siberia, designed for teaching both speakers and non-speakers.