Welcome to the Eskimo-Aleut language family page! Here you will find useful information regarding many of the Eskimo-Aleut Languages.
Aleut
Aleut
Phonetics and Phonology of Unangan (Eastern Aleut) Intonation (Taff, 1999)
Aleut Number Agreement (Sadock, 2000)
Aleut Case Matters (Merchant, 2008)
The Aleut Language (Geoghegan, 1944)
Inuit
General
Palatalization and “Strong i” Ccross Inuit Dialects (Compton and Dresher, 2008)
Contrast in Inuit Consonant Inventories (Compton, 2008)
Word-Formation by Phase in Inuit (Compton and Pittman, 2010)
Addressing Challenges of Machine Translation of Inuit Languages (Micher, 2018)
Greenlandic
Topic and Discourse Structure in West Greenlandic Agreement Constructions (Berge, 1997)
Raised Possessors and Noun Incorporation in West Greenlandic (Van Geenhoven, 2002)
The Greenlandic Verbal Suffix -ut-: Interactions of Linguistic Form and Grammatical Function (Woodbury, 1977)
Inuktitut
Preferred Argument Structure in Early Inuktitut Spontaneous Speech Data (Allen and Schröder, 2003)
Transitivity and Grammatical Relations in Inuktitut (Johns, 1987)
Early Finiteness in Inuktitut: The Role of Language Structure and Input (Crago and Allen, 2001)
Inupiaq
Phonological Issues in North Alaskan Inupiaq. Alaska Native Language Center Research Papers No. 6 (Kaplan, 1981)
Qanuq Ilitaavut:“How We Learned What We Know”(Wales Inupiaq Sea Ice Dictionary) (Krupnik and Weyapuk, 2010)
Consonant Assimilation in Inupiaq Eskimo (Kaplan, 1978)
Yupik
General
Yupik Eskimo Prosodic Systems: Descriptive and Comparative Studies. Alaska Native Language Center Research Papers No. 7 (Krauss, 1980)
Alutiiq
Metrically Conditioned Pitch and Layered Feet in Chugach Alutiiq (Martínez-Paricio and Kager, 2016)
Community Space for Decolonization and Resistance: Kodiak Alutiiq Language Club Participant Perspectives (Bach, 2014)
The Alutiiq Orthography: Kodiak Dialect (Counceller and Leer, 2012)
Central Alaskan
Valency-changing derivation in Central Alaskan Yup’ik (Mithun, 2000)
Inferred Propositions and the Expression of the Evidence Relation in Natural Language: Evidentiality in Central Alaskan Yup’ik Eskimo and English (Krawczyk, 2012)
The Elaboration of Aspectual Categories: Central Alaskan Yup’ik (Mithun and Ali, 1996)
Study of the Chevak Dialect of Central Yup’ik Eskimo (Woodbury, 1981)
Central Siberian
Liinnaqumalghiit: A web-based tool for addressing orthographic transparency in St. Lawrence Island/Central Siberian Yupik (Schwartz and Chen, 2017)
A Grammatical Sketch of Siberian Yupik Eskimo (Jacobson, 1979)