Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Author’s note xi
4. Abbreviations xii
5. Acknowledgments xiv
6. Language and dialect
7. Witsuwit’en 3
8. Segmental phonetics and phonology
9. Consonant contrasts 19
10. Consonant phonetics 46
11. Vowel quality 151
12. Vowel quantity 191
13. Consonant and vowel classes 213
14. Morphology and phonological structure
15. Nouns 229
16. Postpositions 286
17. Directional system 307
18. Adjectives 318
19. Numbers 327
20. Overview of verb structure 331
21. Verb roots 335
22. Verb prefix position classes 340
23. Aspectual verb suffixation 461
24. Verb theme categories 519
25. Inflectionally defective verbs 569
26. Phonological domains 574
27. Suprasegmental phonology
28. Syllables 603
29. Stress 631
30. Prefix case studies
31. Morpheme-specific alternation 671
32. First person plural subject prefix 680
33. Areal prefix 694
34. D‒ voice prefix 706
35. Conclusion
36. Witsuwit’en in comparative and theoretical perspective 733
37. Appendices
38. Historical phonology 737
39. Writing systems for Witsuwit’en-Babine 756
40. Verb paradigms 762
41. Texts 812
42. References 820
43. Index 831