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Author Galloway, Brent Douglas

Title Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem / Brent D. Galloway
Published Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes (l, 1674 pages))
Series University of California publications. Linguistics ; v. 141
University of California publications in linguistics ; v. 141.
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; Quick Start; Sample entries; About the language; About the elders; Abbreviations of related Salish languages and dialects cited in the dictionary; How to Use the Dictionary (an introduction for those with linguistic training); Labels used for each different type of information (fields or bands, Band labels); Spelling and orthography; References; Halkomelem to English; a; ch; ch'; e; h; i; k; k' ; kw; kw'; l; lh; m; n; o; Ç; p; p'; q; q'; qw; qw'; R (reduplication); s; sh; t; t'; th; th'; tl' ; ts'; u; w; x; xw; x; xw; y; English-to-Halkomelem Index; a; ' or '; b
Cd; e; f; g; h; i; j; k; l ; m; n; o; p; q; r; s; t; u; v; w; x; y; z
Summary An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C., giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Upriver Halkomelem dialect -- Dictionaries -- English
English language -- Dictionaries -- Upriver Halkomelem
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
Upriver Halkomelem dialect
English language
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009029426
ISBN 9780520945180
0520945182
9786612360077
6612360070