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A-Z 379BibliographySpillner, B. 1991. Error analysis: a comprehensive bibliography. Amsterdam and Philadelphia.speech errorErythraicAfro-AsiaticEskimoEskimo-AleutEskimo-AleutLanguage group comprised of Aleut (spoken in the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea,approx. 700 speakers) and Eskimo (with two branches, Yuit (Yupik) in east Siberia andsouthwest Alaska, and Inuit in north Alaska, northern Canada and Greenland, approx.100,000), which themselves form dialect continua. The largest linguistic community isfound in Greenland with approx. 43,000 speakers. There are possible relationships withAltaic and Yukagir ( Paleo-Siberian).Characteristics: simple sound system; complex morphology (suffixal). Ergativelanguages: the ergative is identical with the genitive (possessive sentence construction);hardly any indication of a noun-verb distinction. Word order SOV. The verb agrees withthe subject and the object. Complex number system (with dual), very productivederivational mechanisms, tendency towards descriptivity. Complex system of spatialdemonstrative pronouns.ReferencesBok-Bennema, R. 1991. Case and agreement in Inuit. Berlin and New York.Fortescue, M. 1988. The Eskimo-Aleut-Yukagir relationship: an alternative to the genetic/contactdichotomy. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 21. 21–50.Fortescue, M. 1984. West Greenlandic. London.Krauss, M.E. 1973. Eskimo-Aleut. In T.A.Sebeok (ed.), Current trends in linguistics. The Hague.Vol. 10, 796–902.——1979. Na-Dené and Eskirao-Aleut. In L. Campbell and M.Mithun (eds), The languages ofnative America. Austin, TX. 803–901.Reed, I. et al. 1977. Yup’ ik Eskimo grammar. Fairbanks, AL.North and Central American languages