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Title	Aspects of certain intransitivizing postbases and of a transitivizing postbase in Labrador Inuttut
Author	Beaudoin-Lietz, Christa, 1951-
Description	Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1982. Linguistics
Date	1982
Pagination	xv, 154 leaves
Subject	Inuit language--Dialects; Inuit--Labrador; Inuktitut dialect;
Degree	M.A.
Degree Grantor	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Dept. of Linguistics
Discipline	Linguistics
Language	Eng
Spatial Coverage	Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Labrador
Notes	Bibliography : leaves 145-148
Abstract	This study concerns itself with certain intransitivizing postbases and a transitivizing postbase in Labrador Inuttut, a dialect of Inuktitut currently spoken mostly in five settlements of the Labrador coast. A verb classification is provided, according to the possible combinations of the postbases under investigation with verbal stems. The verbs are selected from a dictionary of the Labrador dialect produced by Inuit: "Labrador Inuit Uqausingit"; all forms of the classification are elicited by consulting five native speakers. -- Aspects of intransitivizers and issues related to transitivity in some grammars of other Eastern Dialects of Inuktitut are presented. -- For Labrador Inuttut, the intransitivizing post bases and the transitivizing one are distinguished from other homonymous postbases, and their phonological form is established. The postbase analysis is followed by the verbal stem classification. This classification provides distributional patterns with respect to the co-occurrence of the postbases with verbal stems. It is observed that morphological categories show a tendency to coincide with major semantic categories of verbal stems.
Type	Text
Resource Type	Electronic thesis or dissertation
Format	Image/jpeg; Application/pdf
Source	Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier	75216680
Rights	The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection	Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Scanning Status	Completed
PDF File	(39.15 MB) -- http://collections.mun.ca/PDFs/theses/Beaudoin-Lietz_Christina.pdf
CONTENTdm file name	292687.cpd