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)
[edit] 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?
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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
