Salish Languages and Linguistics: Theoretical and Descriptive Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins (editor); M. Dale Kinkade (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 588
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 107
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Note on names and orthography
Salish languages and linguistics
Part I: Phonetic and phonological studies
Maximality in Bella Coola (Nuxalk)
Spokane (Npoqínišcn) syllable structure and reduplication
Phonetic aspects of retraction in Interior Salish
The morphological and phonological constituent structure of words in Moses-Columbia Salish (Nxaʔamxcín)
How much does a schwa weigh?
Part II: Morphological and syntactic studies
The place of Bella Coola (Nuxalk) in a typology of the relative clause
A fresh look at Tillamook (Hutyéyu) inflectional morphology
Topic and focus in Shuswap (Secwepemctsín)
Mapping Halkomelem voice
Prepositions in Northern Straits Salish and the noun/verb question
Part III: Ethnosemantic studies
Foraging for patterns in Interior Salish semantic domains
Secwepemc (Shuswap) tree names: Key to the past?
Part IV: Comparative and historical studies
Prehistory of the Upper Chehalis (Q’way’áyiɬq’) continuative aspect
CVC reduplication in Salish
Appendix: Papers from the International Conferences on Salish and Neighboring Languages, 1966–1995
References
Index

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