Collected in this book are the personal life histories of four female St?at?imc elders: Beverley Frank, Gertrude Ned, Laura Thevarge, and Rose Agnes Whitley. These elders are among the last remaining fluent speakers of St?at?imcets, a severely imperilled Northern Interior Salish language, also known as Lillooet and spoken in the southwest interior of British Columbia. Their stories are presented in the original St?at?imcets as well as in English translation. A morpheme-by-morpheme gloss is provided for the purposes of linguistic analysis.
These texts are among the longest oral...
Collected in this book are the personal life histories of four female St?at?imc elders: Beverley Frank, Gertrude Ned, Laura Thevarge, and Rose Agne...
An inclusive survey of linguistic semantics, written by prominent experts in the field The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics provides a thorough investigation of issues and phenomena central to the development of modern semantics and its interfaces. Presenting in-depth chapters written by leading experts in the field, this book investigates competing analyses and approaches, examines their conceptual foundations, and evaluates them as applied to various languages. This authoritative collection enables scholars and students of semantics--as well as those from associated areas of...
An inclusive survey of linguistic semantics, written by prominent experts in the field The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Semantics provides a thoro...
