Talk:Inuit grammar

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Just a question... in the section about the tense modifiers, the suffix -laaq- is said to delete a previous consonant, but the example that's given "uqaqlaaqtara" still has the consonant that was to be deleted. Shouldn't it be "uqalaaqtara", without the second Q? TarisWerewolf 01:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Comment salvaged from article
I have concerns about some of this data. Of course, all sentences need to be checked with a native speaker, or the source needs to be cited. I thought ilisaijuq meant "one who is studying". It certainly doesn't have habitual aspect. I thought student was ilisaiji in that dialect. You have an example where mik is attached to inuktitut. Is this possible?
 * - ∅  ( ∅ ), 05:07, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Please try to get all sentences checked by a speaker, if they haven't been already, or switch to published examples.

Very good work on explaining a range of phenomena though! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.95.94.123 (talk)

Specific grammatical suffixes
The article says 'take suffixes that indicate the grammatical person of both the subject and the object, but not their grammatical number.' but I don't think that's true...Mallon's Reference Grammar refers to (without enumerating) 'the various combinations of duals and plurals' in the relevant sections, and Spalding's learning Inuktitut shows separate forms for singular subject (-vara, -vat, -vaa) and plural subject (-vavut, -vasi, -vaat), and a similar distinction for singular and plural objects, and the Inuktitut Morphological Analyser (example: takuvaka) seems to bear this out. Does anyone know for sure, or better yet, have a full chart of all the possible forms? Moszczynski 05:54, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Dialects
It will be useful if the author specifies the dialect of each example —Preceding unsigned comment added by Glammy (talk • contribs) 05:53, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Polysynthetic?
What exactly makes it a polysynthetic language? I mean, why is tusaatsiarunnanngittualuujunga considered to be one word and not six words? (tusaa tsiaq junaq nngit tualuu junga)--90.179.235.249 (talk) 15:59, 3 March 2010 (UTC)


 * First, because you can't say the pieces individually, as you could if they were independent words. You might have 'fish' or 'kayaq' or 'night' in the word, but it wouldn't be the same an the independent word for that thing.
 * Second, if you make a mistake, you have to start over from the beginning. You can't screw up the junaq and correct just that; you have to go back to tusaa. — kwami (talk) 15:26, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Not universal approach
This article should be converted to normal ergative–absolutive terminology. The odd terms used in only this article, as a doomed attempt to recast the grammar as nominative–accusative, are opaque to everyone else. — kwami (talk) 15:26, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Nouns
Where are they?! This is a huge, gaping hole in this article! 72.21.131.202 (talk) 00:27, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

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