Is Inuktitut a morphological argument language?

• Main Author: Nowak, Elke
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Inuktitut; ddc:400; Arctic; eskimo*; inuktitut
• Online Access: http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12439; https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1133449; http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/12439/HALLE_AU.pdf

In the following I will discuss grammatical structures of Inuktitut, an Eskimo language spoken in the Canadian Eastern Arctic. Inuktitut is a polysynthetic language exhibiting an exceedingly elaborate verbal inflectional system including polypersonal marking. Furthermore, Inuktitut features free word order and optionality of noun phrases crossreferenced with the predicate. But Inuktitut also exhibits a number of features which seem to contradict the possibility of its being a "pronominal argument language" -- or as I would prefer to express it, a morphological argument language.