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