Catchup report on Salish conf that just ended

[David Robertson]

Hey, it occurs to me that nobody on this list talked much about the Salish
conference in North Vancouver that just ended several days ago.  The
conference volume, published by UBC Working Papers in Linguistics, is
available for purchase.  Some of the items presented might be of interest
to folks on this list.

There was a paper on "Uncovering the Chinookan roots of Chinuk Wawa: a new
look at the linguistic and historical record" by Henry Zenk & Tony
Johnson.

Henk Nater contributed "Bella Coola /-uks/ reconsidered", a sequel to a
previous paper of his that muses on plural suffixes of identical shape in
Bella Coola (Salish) and old Chinookan; a number of words in Chinuk-Wawa
have this marker, for example /pasayuks/ 'French', /sik'aluks/ 'pants'.
Nater seems to have brought Blackfoot (Algonquian) into the mix as well,
for an unusual historical perspective.

Dave Robertson's brief paper "On the meaning of Thompson resonant
glottalization" includes a section discussing reduplication in Grand Ronde
Chinuk-Wawa.

There are many other interesting papers in the volume, touching on topics
like a Haida language immersion camp, prehistoric Salish gardens, Musqueam
personal names, reviving the Nooksack language, Sasquatch, and a bunch of
linguistic stuff.

--Dave R

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