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Kootenay-Salishan: Problems and Prospects
Academic Work
This paper represents an addition and some to some extent a revision of my preliminary report on Kootenay-Salishan comparative work which I presented earlier this year as a University of British Columbia master's thesis. In that work I presented some 129 probable cognate sets which yield a set of sound correspondences which can most easily be explained with the hypothesis that there was once a protolanguage, called Proto-Kootenay-Salishan for lack of a better name, which was ancestral to both Kootenay and Proto-Salishan. Also in that work, I presented 21 other sets which appear to represent examples of linguistics diffusion between Kootenay and Interior Salishan languages. In my thesis I said that distinguishing cognates from borrowings must be an on-going process the first step of which has to be establishing that Kootenay and Salishan are in fact genetically related and that there are at least some cognates to distinguish. The best evidence for a genetic relationship has already been presented there. The purpose of this paper is not to present additional evidence of a genetic relationship but to present some additional Kootenay-Salishan resemblances which are doubtful as cognates and doubtful as borrowings but which may be of some interest for further research. Among these resemblances are the Kootenay relative markers, one of which is inadequately described in existing descriptions of Kootenay and so will be briefly described here.
AW.00124
1980
Language and Linguistics
UBC Working Papers in Linguistics Press
International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, 15, 29
International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, 15, 29
Kootenay, Salishan
Working Papers
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