Documenting linguistic practices for navigating space and place in Greenland

• Main Authors: McMahan, Hilary, Grenoble, Lenore A.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Nunavut; Stea; Wilkins; Alaskan Inuit; Climate change; eskimo*; greenlandic; Grønland; inuit; Inuit–Yupik; kalaallisut; North Atlantic; Yupik; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/25277

Language provides a unique window into the ways that a community conceptualizes and relates to its spatial environment. Calling attention to both similarities and differences in the cross-linguistic structuring of space, investigations into the linguistic encoding of space and place yield much insig...