Verbal Classifiers in Innu

Drapeau, Lynn; Lambert-Brétière, Renée

doi:10.1353/anl.2011.0025

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“…These languages can be found mainly in South America, for example Tariana (Arawakan; Aikhenvald 1994;, and Ayoreo and Chamacoco (Zamucoan; Bertinetto 2009;Ciucci 2013). Concurrent systems are also common in Algonquian languages, including Innu (Montagnais) (Algonquian; Drapeau & Lambert-Brétière 2011). In other parts of the world we find a sporadic distribution of languages that combine gender and classifiers, for example in the Papuan language Mian (Trans New Guinea; Fedden 2011) and in the Austroasiatic language Pnar (Ring 2015), spoken in the northeast of India.…”

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Gender and classifiers in concurrent systems: Refining the typology of nominal classification

Fedden

Corbett

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Some languages have both gender and classifiers, contrary to what was once believed possible. We use these interesting languages as a unique window onto nominal classification. They provide the impetus for a new typology, based on the degree of orthogonality of the semantic systems and the degree of difference of the forms realizing them. This nine-way typology integrates traditional gender, traditional classifiers and -importantly -the many recently attested phenomena lying between. Besides progress specifically in understanding nominal classification, our approach provides clarity on the wider theoretical issue of single versus concurrent featural systems.

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Section: Gender Classifiersmentioning

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Gender and classifiers in concurrent systems: Refining the typology of nominal classification

Fedden

Corbett

2017

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…There has been projects to create fundamental resources like annotated, aligned and segmented corpora, such as the Innu Language Documentation Project [9] or the Labrador Languages Preservation Database 5 , but no such resource is currently openly available. More recently, an Innu-Aimun morphological segmenter based on deep-learning was proposed [35].…”

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“…This shortage has been documented by the Viens Commission, not only for Innu-Aimun but for other Indigenous languages in the province of Quebec 8 . Recently, a new program for Innu-Aimun translation and interpretation has been created at Cégep de Sept-Îles 9 . Students set to graduate this year form the rst cohort.…”

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Lost in Innu-Aimun Translation - Re-dening Neural Machine Translation for Indigenous Interpreters and Translators Needs

Cadotte,

Thernish,

Sadat

2023

Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology 2023

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Innu-Aimun, one of the most spoken Indigenous languages in Canada, faces signicant transmission challenges. Although there is a notable body of Innu-Aimun literature, there is generally not enough documentation written in Innu-Aimun for daily use, just as there are not enough translators and interpreters for the language. We present here collaborative work between Innu-Aimun translators and researchers in computational linguistics to develop translation assistance tools, with the aim of helping language revitalization and preservation. We detail our common position on how should technological assistance tools be developed for Innu-Aimun, which emphasizes the importance of involving Innu translators throughout the entire process and making sure to address language-specic needs. This position is elaborated from joining our respective perspectives (researchers and Innu community member) and expertise (computational linguistics and Innu-Aimun translation). In this spirit, we present preliminary results for the rst ongoing steps towards building a rst Innu-Aimun -French Neural Machine Translation model. We focus on our participatory process to create aligned parallel corpora and present rst results and analyses.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

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Sign language typology is the study of languages that use the visual-gestural rather than the auditory-vocal modality, and allows typologists to consider issues of language modality alongside typological patterns.Modality effects may be absolute, where features exist only in one of the modalities, or relative, where features are more frequent in one modality than the other. Sign language typologists, while widening the scope of typological investigations, are also concerned with many of the same issues as spoken language typologists, such as areal typology, grammaticalisation, and methodological questions. Although sign language typology is one of the more recent areas to emerge in the field, several studies have examined domains of linguistic structures in over 30 sign languages, and we focus on key findings from research in the domains of interrogatives, negation, possession, and numerals. The aim of the chapter is not to give comprehensive overviews of each domain, but rather to highlight issues of general relevance. We conclude with reflections on the emerging field of cross-modal typology, where data from spoken and signed languages are systematically included. This endeavour may necessitate the redefinition of terms and concepts, and will present new challenges for spoken and sign language typologists alike. Keywordscross-modal typology, iconicity, interrogatives, modality effects, negation, numerals, possession, rural sign languages, sign language linguistics The context and aims of sign language typologySign language typology lies at the confluence of sign language linguistics and linguistic typology. Drawing on theoretical and methodological resources from its two source disciplines, it has a double orientation, broadening linguistic typology to include sign languages, while examining linguistic diversity within sign languages from a typological perspective. Ultimately, typological studies of sign languages will lead to a theory of variation which accounts for the patterns of differences and similarities that we find both across sign languages and between signed languages on the one hand and spoken languages on the other, and such reasoning sometimes offers the potential for a deep re-thinking of linguistic theories.

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Verbal Classifiers in Innu

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Gender and classifiers in concurrent systems: Refining the typology of nominal classification

Gender and classifiers in concurrent systems: Refining the typology of nominal classification

Lost in Innu-Aimun Translation - Re-dening Neural Machine Translation for Indigenous Interpreters and Translators Needs

The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology

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