Re: THEORY: Inuit

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>
> What I would love to find is a comparative historical treatment of the
> whole group. It is fairly clear that a lot of simplification has been
> happening not too long ago, at least in West Greenlandic, both in
> phonology and inflection. OTOH, I suspect that the now opaque endings
> used to be combinations of tense/case endings and agreement particles
> --- perhaps never totally agglutinative, but close.
>
There is a relatively new etymological dictionary for the family, mostly
the "Eskimo" languages but also including some of the Aleut lgs.  I
don't recall the exact title but seem to remember that it included the
words Eskimo and Etymological.  I believe the publisher was the Alaska
Native Language Institute (which is probably not the exact name either,
I really am helpful aren't I).  I suspect one of the authors might be
Michael Krauss????  I have only skimmed the book, my interests lie much
further south but it looked like a major contribution.
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