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Re: THEORY: Inuit

From:Hawksinger <hawksinger@...>
Date:Saturday, June 12, 1999, 1:18
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. -- Brad Coon hawksinger@fwi.com listowner battleship-l http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7264/battleship-l.html http://www.ipfw.indiana.edu/east1/coon/web/index.htm (home pg. et al.) http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7264 (outdoor and prim.skills) http://members.tripod.com/~Hawksinger (wine and whisky pgs) Civilize the mind and make savage the body. (Chinese proverb)