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This book offers a comprehensive view of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicatives in Salish, a language family of northwestern North America. Applicative constructions, found in many polysynthetic languages, cast a semantically peripheral noun phrase as direct object. Drawing upon primary and secondary data from twenty Salish languages, the authors catalog the relationship between the form and function of seventeen applicative suffixes. The semantic role of the associated noun phrase and the verb class of the base are crucial factors in differentiating applicatives. Salish languages have two types of applicatives: relationals are formed on intransitive bases and redirectives on transitive ones. The historical development and discourse function of Salish applicatives are elucidated and placed in typological perspective.

Salishan languages --- Indians of North America --- Grammar. --- Morphology. --- Languages

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North and Central American indian languages --- Salishan languages --- Langues Salish --- Salishan languages. --- Indians of North America --- Languages

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This book investigates the properties of determiners in Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Salish. Determiners in Skwxwú7mesh are shown to behave significantly differently from the definite determiner the in English, as Skwxwú7mesh lacks a definite/indefiniteness distinction. All Skwxwú7mesh DPs can be used in both familiar and novel contexts, and are not required to refer to a unique entity. Instead, Skwxwú7mesh determiners are split along deictic/non-deicticlines. Determiners can therefore vary in te...

Salishan languages. --- Salish language. --- Suquamish dialect (Wash.) --- Semantics. --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Language and languages --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Salishan languages --- Indians of North America --- Soquamish dialect --- Squamish dialect (Wash.) --- Squawmish dialect (Wash.) --- Sukwamish dialect --- Suquahmish dialect --- Suquamish language --- Swokwabish dialect --- Puget Sound Salish languages --- Languages

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Suquamish dialect (Wash.) --- Squamish language (B.C.) --- Soquamish dialect --- Squamish dialect (Wash.) --- Squawmish dialect (Wash.) --- Sukwamish dialect --- Suquahmish dialect --- Suquamish language --- Swokwabish dialect --- Puget Sound Salish languages --- Shwawmish language --- Skaywamish language --- Skgomic language --- Skwamish language --- Skwxwu'mesh language --- Skwxwú7mesh language --- Squawmish language --- Squawmish language (B.C.) --- Suquamish language (B.C.) --- Salishan languages --- English.

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"In this book of Native American language research and oral traditions, linguist John Lyon collects Salish stories as told by culture-bearer Lottie Lindley, one of the last Okanagan elders whose formative years of language learning were unbroken by the colonizing influence of English ... For each Okanagan Salish story, Lyon and Lindley offer an uninterrupted transcription followed by a collaborative English translation of the story and an interlinear rendition with morphological analysis."--Front jacket flap.

Indigenous peoples. --- Indians of North America --- Oral tradition --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Languages. --- Okanagan language --- Okanagan Indians --- Okanagan Indians. --- Okanagan language. --- Okanagen language --- Okanagon language --- Okanakan language --- Okanogan language --- Okinagan language --- Okinakan language --- Okinaken language --- Wakyanakane language --- Language and languages --- Salishan languages --- Okanagon Indians --- Okanakan Indians --- Okanogan Indians --- Okinagan Indians --- Okinakan Indians --- Okinaken Indians --- Salishan Indians