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Reconstructing Aspect in Salishan Languages
Academic Work
The 23 Salishan languages are (or were) spoken in the Pacific Northwest from the Rocky Mountains in Montana to the Pacific Coast, and from the Northern Oregon Coast to central British Columbia. The family is usually conceived of as consisting of five branches: Bella Coola, Central Salish (10 languages), Tsamosan (4 languages), Tillamook, and Interior Salish (7 languages). Bella Coola and Tillamook are noncontiguous outliers to the north and south, respectively, of the main body of the family. Only a handful of the languages still has more than a hundred speakers, and several are already extinct or very nearly so.
AW.00107
1996
Language and Linguistics
UBC Working Papers in Linguistics Press
31, 135-195
31, 135-195
Salishan languages, Bella Coola, Central Salish, Tsamosan, Tillamook, Interior Salish
Working Papers
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