Inuktitut Project

ALANA JOHNS



Professor, University of Toronto [site]



BETTINA SPRENG



PhD student, University of Toronto [site]


Ph.D. DISSERTATION:

Spreng, Bettina (2012). Viewpoint Aspect in Inuktitut: The Syntax and Semantics of Antipassives. Ph.D. dissertation: University of Toronto. [link]


MARINA SHERKINA-LIEBER



PhD student, University of Toronto


Ph.D. DISSERTATION:

Sherkina-Lieber, Marina (2011). Comprehension of Labrador Inuttitut functional morphology by receptive bilinguals. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto. [link]


MIDORI HAYASHI



PhD student, University of Toronto

Ph.D. DISSERTATION:

Hayashi, Midori (2011). The Structure of Multiple Tenses in Inuktitut. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto. [link]


RICHARD COMPTON



PhD student, University of Toronto [site]


RESEARCH DESCRIPTION:

Lexical categories, modification, polysynthesis, and word-formation in Inuktitut.


RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
Compton, R. & B.E. Dresher (2011). Palatalization and ‘strong i’ across Inuit dialects. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 56(2), 203-228.

Compton, R. & C. Pittman (2010). Word-formation by phase in Inuit. Lingua 120(9), 2167-2192.

Compton, R. (to appear). Explaining the lack of intersective strictly-attributive adjectives in Inuit. Proceedings of SULA 6: Semantics of Under-Represented Languages in the Americas.

Compton, R. (to appear). Adjectives and adverbs as distinct lexical categories in Inuktitut. Proceedings of WSCLAXVI: The Sixteenth Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.

Compton, R. & C. Pittman (2010). Pi as a syntactic pro-form in Inuktitut noun-incorporation and beyond. In Beth Rogers & Anita Szakay, eds., Proceedings of WSCLAXV: The Fifteenth Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics.