Time in Child Inuktitut : : A Developmental Study of an Eskimo-Aleut Language / / Mary D. Swift.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014
• VerfasserIn: Swift, Mary D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Other title: 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 --; Chapter 8. Aspectual suffixes in early --; Chapter 9. Future temporal remoteness in early --; Chapter 10. Past temporal remoteness in early --; Chapter 11. Temporal adverbials and temporal clause --; coordination in early Inuktitut --; Chapter 12. Summary and conclusions --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110197419; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110212129; 9783110212136; 9783110209457
• ISSN: 1861-4248
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110197419
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mary D. Swift.

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 account of children's development of a temporal system that is fundamentally different from those found in languages previously studied. Drawing on spontaneous speech data collected longitudinally from eight Inuit children between 2 and 3-and-a-half years old, this study analyzes the temporal structures, their meanings and context of use in the children's communicative interactions with siblings, peers and caretakers during the early stages of language development.