Salish Languages and Linguistics: Theoretical and Descriptive PerspectivesEwa Czaykowska-Higgins, Marvin Dale Kinkade Walter de Gruyter, 1998 - 575 pages TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks, as well as studies that provide new insights by approaching language from an interdisciplinary perspective. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert. |
Table des matières
Salish languages and linguistics | 1 |
Maximality in Bella Coola Nuxalk | 71 |
Spokane Npoqínišcn syllable structure and reduplication | 99 |
Phonetic aspects of retraction in Interior Salish | 125 |
The morphological and phonological constituent structure | 153 |
How much does a schwa weigh? | 197 |
The place of Bella Coola Nuxalk in a typology of the relative clause | 219 |
A fresh look at Tillamook Hutyéyu inflectional morphology | 235 |
Prepositions in Northern Straits Salish and the nounverb question | 325 |
Foraging for patterns in Interior Salish semantic domains | 349 |
Key to the past? | 387 |
Prehistory of the Upper Chehalis QWayáyi+q continuative aspect | 421 |
reduplication in Salish | 453 |
Papers from the International Conferences on Salish | 477 |
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