Catchup report on Salish conf that just ended

[Keith Thor Carlson]

Hi Dave,

What's the best way to order/purchase a copy?

KEith

On Tuesday, August 31, 2004, at 06:46 PM, David Robertson wrote:

> 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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Keith Thor Carlson, Ph.D.
History Department
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon Canada
306-966-5902
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