Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
1.1. Greenlandic within the Eskimo-Aleut language family
1.2. Greenlandic language varieties
1.3. Historical and sociolinguistic introduction to West Greenlandic
1.3.1. Early history of Greenlandic
1.3.2. History of written West Greenlandic
1.3.3. Contemporary West Greenlandic
1.3.4. Aspects of Greenlandic culture
1.4. Characteristic features of West Greenlandic
1.5. How to use this grammar
1.5.1. Overall approach
1.5.2. Dictionary forms of words
1.5.3. Additive and truncative suffixes
1.5.4. Examples of grammatical points
1.5.5. Glossing
2. Phonology and orthography
2.1. The alphabet
2.2. Vowels
2.3. Consonants
2.4. Syllables, stress, and intonation
2.5. Morphophonological variation
2.5.1. Consonant changes
2.5.2. Vowel changes
2.5.3. Helping vowel ‑i‑
2.5.4 Loss of glides (j and v)
2.5.5 Stem types
2.5.6. Sound alternation in the beginning of suffixes
2.6. Kleinschmidt’s orthography
3. Nouns
3.1. Case and number
3.2. Noun stem types
3.3. Function of cases
3.4. Possessive inflection
3.4.1. Possessive absolutive
3.4.2. Possessive relative
3.4.3. Possessive allative
3.4.4. Possessive locative
3.4.5. Possessive ablative
3.4.6. Possessive instrumental
3.4.7. Possessive prolative
3.4.8. Possessive equative
3.5. Collective suffixes
4. Pronouns
4.1. Personal
4.2. Demonstrative
4.3. Interrogative
4.4. Reflexive
4.5. Reciprocal
4.6. Other
5. Numerals
5.1. Cardinal
5.2. Ordinal
6. Noun modification (= adjectives)
6.1. Attributive modifiers
6.2. Predicative modifiers
6.3. Comparison
6.3.1. Comparative
6.3.2. Superlative
7. Verbs
7.1. Person and number
7.1.1. Subject suffixes
7.1.2. Object suffixes
7.2. Mood
7.2.1. Independent/main moods
7.2.2. Subordinate moods
7.3. Tense
7.3.1. Present tense
7.3.2. Past tense
7.3.3. Future tense
7.4 Aspect
7.4.1. Completed
7.4.2. Habitual
7.4.3. Inchoative
7.5. Modality
7.6. Evidentiality
7.7. Causativity
7.8. Reflexivity and reciprocity
7.8.1. Reflexivity
7.8.2. Reciprocity
7.9. Passivity
7.10. Valency
7.11. Negation
7.11.1. Basic negative suffixes
7.11.2. Negative suffixes with more specific meanings
7.11.3. Negative intransitive participle
7.11.4. Negative indefinite pronouns and adverbs
7.11.5. Periphrastic negative constructions
8. Participles
8.1. Intransitive participle
8.2. Passive participle
8.3. Abstract participle
9. Adverbs
9.1. Manner
9.2. Time
9.3. Place and direction
9.4. Degree, measure, and quantity
9.5. Modal
9.6. Interrogative
10. Postpositions
10.1. Place and direction
10.2. Time
10.3. Other
11. Conjunctions
11.1. Coordinating
11.2. Subordinating
12. Particles
12.1. Discourse particles and interjections
12.2. Enclitic particles
13. Suffixes
13.1. Suffix types
13.2. Order of suffixes
14. Phrases, clauses, and sentences
14.1. Basic word order
14.2. Incorporation
14.2.1. Incorporated predicative
14.2.2. Incorporated direct object
14.2.3. Incorporated noun in oblique cases
14.3. Definiteness
14.4. Clause types
14.4.1. Copular
14.4.2. Intransitive
14.4.3. Transitive
14.4.4. Half-transitive
14.4.5. Double transitive
14.4.6. Existential
14.4.7. Possessive
14.4.8. Impersonal
14.4.9. Interrogative
14.5. Complex sentences
14.5.1. Adverbial
14.5.2. Relative
14.5.3. Complement
15. List of essential suffixes
Suggested resources
Index
