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Author Swift, Mary D

Title Time in Child Inuktitut : a Developmental Study of an Eskimo-Aleut Language
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (328 pages)
Series Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]
Studies on Language Acquisition SOLA
Contents Frontmatter -- 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 -- Backmatter
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
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Subject Inuktitut language -- Temporal constructions
Inuktitut language -- Acquisition
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110197419
3110197413