Elke Nowak (Stuttgart):
Subordinate and coordinate constructions in Inuktitut (Eskimo)

Freitag, 11.30 Uhr

Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit of the Eastern and Central Arctic, has been investigated repeatedly during the last decades. More recent research focuses on ergativity and consequently assumes a configurational syntactic structure for the language. Interestingly enough, all these investigations fail to identify noun phrase hierarchies.

Looking into subordination and coordination structures I will scrutinize functional categories and their morphological and syntactic status, respectively. Finally, I will propose a re-interpretation of the data which accounts for the problems mentioned and offers a homogeneous representation of Inuktitut.

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