Grønlandske grammatikker / Greenlandic grammars

 

I filerne under [vejledning] og [grammatik] har jeg givet en kort fremstilling af den grønlandske grammatik. Min version går ud fra følgende arbejder (kronologisk rækkefølge): / In the files under [Guide] and [Grammar] I have given a short description of the Greenlandic grammar. My version is based on the following expositions (in chronological order):

 

Chr. Rasmussen: Grønlandsk Sproglære. Kjøbenhavn 1888; Aarhus 1971 (Akademisk Boghandel).

 

Knut Bergsland: A Grammatical Outline of the Eskimo Language of West Greenland. Oslo 1955 (duplikeret / mimeographed).

 

Jørgen Rischel: Derivation as a syntactic process in Greenlandic. P. 60-73 in Ferenc Kiefer (ed.:) Derivational Processes, proceedings of KVAL Seminar. Stockholm 1972 (Research Group for Quantitative Linguistics). 

 

Jørgen Rischel: Topics in West Greenlandic Phonology. Regularities Underlying the Phonetic Appearance of Wordforms in a Polysynthetic Language. København 1974 (Akademisk Forlag).

 

Jørgen Rischel: Asymmetric Vowel Harmony in Greenlandic Fringe Dialects. P. 1-48 in Annual Report of the Institute of Phonetics, University of Copenhagen, no. 9, 1975. (Reprinted together with the paper from 1972 in Jørgen Rischel: Sound Structure in Language, Oxford University Press 2009.)

 

Lawrence D. Kaplan: Phonological Issues in North Alaskan Inupiaq. Ph.d. dissertation. University of California, San Diego 1979; Alaska Native Language Center Research Papers Number 6, Fairbanks 1981.

 

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I have worked intensely with Greenlandic during most of the years since 1971 and published mainly in Danish. Reprints of the following two papers in English are still available:

 

Henrik Aagesen: A Physicist's View of Formal Syntax. P. 475-506 in Acta Linguistica Hafniensis 27, Copenhagen 1994.

 

Henrik Aagesen: Greenlandic Features for Place of Articulation. P. 151-168 in Acta Linguistica Hafniensis 28, Copenhagen 1996.

 

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Fire nyere grammatikker er: / Four more recent grammars are:

 

Michael Fortescue: West Greenlandic. Croom Helm Descriptive Grammars, London 1984.

 

Stig Bjørnum: Grønlandsk Grammatik, 2. udgave. Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk 2012.

 

Flemming A. J. Nielsen: Vestgrønlandsk grammatik. Learn Greenlandic, Nuuk 2019.

 

Lily Kahn and Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi: West Greenlandic, An Essential Grammar. Routledge, London and New York 2022.