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Problems in Proto-Salish Pronoun Reconstruction
Academic Work
It has been some ten years now since the publication of Gladys A. Reichard's "A Comparison of Five Salish Languages: I-VI". The five languages Reichard used in her comparison were Coeur d'Alene, Kalispel, Upper Chehalis, Puget Salish, and Tillamook. In the present paper, comparison has been restricted to pronominal elements and data has been added for Bella Coola, Squamish, Clallam/ Songish, Halkomelem, Sliammon, Sechelt, Twana, Columbian, Shuswap, Okanagan, and Lillooet. A significant amount of data from other Salish languages - Quinault, Lower Chehalis, and Thompson, in particular - has not been available to me. As will be apparent in what follows, many potentially relevant forms are lacking even in the languages examined. Moreover, the available language descriptions are often difficult to use for comparative purposes since the different languages have received widely varying amounts of attention. Hence, the tentative and often speculative nature of the reconstructions offered here must be emphasized.
AW.00132
1970
Language and Linguistics
UBC Working Papers in Linguistics Press
International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, 5, 1-11
International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, 5, 1-11
Working Papers
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