Dr. Leslie Saxon (PI)
Research Collaborators:
Rosa Mantla Dogrib Community Services Board
Philip Rabesca Dogrib Community Services Board
Dr. Keren Rice University of Toronto

SSHRCC Research Grant

OBJECTIVES

The program of research encompasses two projects: (1) investigations of clausal relations in the Dogrib language and (2) the editing of a book of Dogrib travel narratives. Both elements of the proposal contribute to important streams of research. In addition, they are related to each other intimately: the book of narratives is a central and crucial source of the data needed for the study of clauses, which depends on understanding sentences in context. Further, the two projects together provide for training of community members and students on a common ground likely to encourage interactions between university- and community-based researchers and research assistants.

PAPERS / PUBLICATIONS/ PRESENTATIONS

Preliminary:

2006 Dogrib Online Dictionary Project.

2002 Review of Land Occupancy by the Amerindians of the Canadian Northwest in the 19th Century, as Reported by =C9mile Petitot: Toponymic Inventory, Data Analyses, Legal Implications. Edited by Donat Savoie. Occasional Publication No. 49, Canadian Circumpolar Institute, 2001.
Review in SSILA Newsletter XX:4 (January 2002), p 16.

2002 (with Sally Anne Zoe, Georgina Chocolate, and Allice Legat, Dogrib Treaty 11 Council) Dogrib Knowledge on Placenames, Caribou and Habitat. Report to the West Kitikmeot Slave Study Society, Yellowknife, NWT. [173 pp.] available at: http://www.wkss.nt.ca/HTML/08_ProjectsReports/08_habitat/08_habDogribTT.htm

2002 (invited public lecture) Lac de Gras, Wait Lake, Ant's Mouth Stream, Mouth-Poking: The information of placenames in a Northern community. Dean's Lunchtime Lecture Series at UVic Downtown, Continuing Studies, University of Victoria, October 2002.

2002 The complementizer *gu in Athapaskan. Workshop on Grammatical
Structure in the Indigenous Languages of the North/West. University of Victoria Department of Linguistics, February 2003.

Supported by the grant:

Saxon, Leslie. 2003 The complementizer *Gu in Athapaskan: Its reflex in Dogrib.
Proceedings of the WSCLA VIII: The Eighth Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, edited by Yunhee Chung, Carrie Gillon, and Rachel Wojdak. UBC Working Papers in Linguistics, volume 12. 59-74.

Saxon, Leslie. 2003 The nominalizing and adverbial suffixes in Proto-Athapaskan. Athabascan Languages Conference, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, June 2003.

Saxon, Leslie. 2003 Two complementizers in Proto-Athapaskan. International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2003.

Marinakis, Aliki. 2004 Seeking Simplicity: The preference for minimal structure in Dogrib. M.A. thesis. Victoria, BC

Marinakis, Aliki. 2003 Reduction of syllables in Dogrib. Presented at the Athabascan Languages Conference. Humboldt State University, Arcata.

Marinakis, Aliki. 2003 Maintaining simplicity in Dogrib stems. Presented at the 19th Northwest Linguistics Conference. Working Papers of the Linguistic Circle 16. University of Victoria.

Marinakis, Aliki. 2003 Resisting Simple Structure: The case of the diminutive suffix in Dogrib. Presented at The Workshop on the Grammatical Structures in Indigenous languages of the North West. University of Victoria.

STUDENTS FUNDED

Christel Bodenbender
Aliki Marinakis
Joseph Martel
Mark Riepl
Linda Smith
Qian Wang