Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. Note on names and orthography VII
4. Table of Contents IX
5. Salish languages and linguistics 1
6. Part I: Phonetic and phonological studies
7. Maximality in Bella Coola (Nuxalk) 71
8. Spokane (Npoqínišcn) syllable structure and reduplication 99
9. Phonetic aspects of retraction in Interior Salish 125
10. The morphological and phonological constituent structure of words in Moses-Columbia Salish (Nxa?amxcín) 153
11. How much does a schwa weigh? 197
12. Part II: Morphological and syntactic studies
13. The place of Bella Coola (Nuxalk) in a typology of the relative clause 219
14. A fresh look at Tillamook (Hutyéyu) inflectional morphology 235
15. Topic and focus in Shuswap (Secwepemctsín) 275
16. Mapping Halkomelem voice 305
17. Prepositions in Northern Straits Salish and the noun/verb question 325
18. Part III: Ethnosemantic studies
19. Foraging for patterns in Interior Salish semantic domains 349
20. Secwepemc (Shuswap) tree names: key to the past? 387
21. Part IV: Comparative and historical studies
22. Prehistory of the Upper Chehalis (Qʷay'áyiɬq') continuative aspect 421
23. CVC reduplication in Salish 453
24. Appendix: Papers from the International Conferences on Salish and Neighboring Languages, 1966-1995 477
25. References 497
26. Index 565
27. 576-578 576