Utkuhiksalingmiut Uqauhiitigut Uqauhiliurut: Dictionary of Utkuhiksalingmiut Inuktitut Postbase Suffixes is a dictionary of word-forming suffixes that documents the Inuktitut dialect spoken by the Utkuhiksalingmiut people of the central Canadian Arctic. This dictionary is the first of two Utkuhiksalingmiut dictionaries that the authors intend to produce. The second will be a wordbase dictionary, consisting of simple words formed on all of the bases (roots) found in Jean Briggs's extensive research database of Utkuhiksalingmiut words. This volume, the postbase dictionary, lists the suffixes used to form words in Inuktitut. An Inuktitut word often contains as much information as an English sentence, and an understanding of how postbase suffixes are used to form these longer words is essential to a full understanding of the Inuit language. Through complex real-life examples and detailed notes, this dictionary aims to show the richness of how postbases are used in the Utkuhiksalingmiut dialect.

Jean L Briggs is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Memorial University. Her first book, Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family, was published in 1970 by Harvard University Press. The book was one of the first ethnographies to be written as a personal narrative, recounting the life Briggs lived for 17 months (1963-65) as an adopted daughter in an Inuit family in a small Central Arctic camp. It was also one of the first accounts of the social importance of emotional values. Inuit Morality Play: The Emotional Education of a Three-Year-Old, was published in 1998, by Yale University Press and ISER Books, Memorial University. This book was laid in a Baffin Island camp, and again focussed on the emotional values underlying social life. It analyzed 40 dramatic interactions between one little girl and her caretakers, showing how these interrogations taught the 3-year-old about the emotionally complex situations she would meet in her everyday life: what dangers to watch out for, and how to defuse them. Briggs taught at Memorial University, and did Arctic research, from 1966-1997.

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Alana Johns is a professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Linguistics. Her countless publications are dedicated to the theoretical analysis of Inuktitut and other languages.

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Conor Cook is a linguist at Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit (Inuit Language Authority) in Iqaluit, which works to standardize Inuktitut to increase effective communication between Nunavummiut.

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