Inuit Grammars

Thanks to all who sent helpful answers. My credit card doesn't like
the looks of this, though.

> Date:         Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:44:42 -0600
> From: dirk elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > I see to my frustration that there is no good grammar of any Inuit
> > language. At least not in that list.
> >
> > So: Can anyone recommend one? Or even better a comparative grammar or
> > protolanguage reconstruction for the whole group? (I may have asked
> > this before, but I can find no trace of either question or reply in my
> > files).
>
> The grammar of Siberian Yupik isn't bad at all; a bit more
> socio-/anthro-linguistic information than usual since one of
> the main goals is to document language contact issues in the
> language, but there should be ample information on the grammar
> itself. It's by Willem de Reuse and is published by the
> University of Utah Press.
>
> It strikes me that Jeff Leer has done and published work on
> comparative Inuit/Yupik; a search for that author might turn up
> something useful.
> Date:         Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:33:42 -0500
> From: Matt Pearson <jmpearson@...>
>
> There's a decent grammar of West Greenlandic in the Croom Helm
> series (1984), by M.D. Fortescue.  A good deal of linguistics work
> has been done by Alana Johns and Anthony ("Tony") C. Woodbury.
> Those would be two names to look up.  I don't know which language
> Woodbury works on, but Johns works mostly on Inuktitut.
> Date:         Fri, 28 Apr 2000 16:34:04 -0600
> From: Brad Coon <bcoon@...>
>
> Someone asked before although I don't recall who.  My answer at the
> time referred to the comparative Eskimauan dictionary from the Alaska
> Native Lgs Center (I think I have the name right).  It has Eskimo
> reconstructions and often includes Aleut cognates and I believe,
> reconstuctions.  Also there is the series of articles that appeared in
> International Journal of American Linguistics several decades ago.
> I believe the author was Danish, his last name was Berg-something.
Brad, does this Alaska Native Lgs Center dictionary treat grammatical
morphemes too? And were those articles about grammar or lexicon? I'm
not looking for individual word histories, though a description of the
sound changes between the different languages would interest me.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)