An Outline of the Morphology and Phonology of Saanich 萨尼奇的形态学和音位学概述.pdf

An Outline of the Morphology and Phonology of Saanich 07/05/2005 10:08 AM PREFACE This slightly revised version of my 1984 University of Hawaii dissertaion Saanich Morphology and Phonology is based on field work carried out during the summers of 1978 through 1981. I have since been back to Saanich country and worked with a number of other speakers. The analyses presented here have, for the most part, been confirmed. At least the basic distributional properties of the forms discussed here seem to be correct. I have, however, discovered a few lexical suffixes and post-predicate particles not mentioned here. The analyes I have been rethinking are those of the reduplicative processes and the demonstrative particles. I now feel that at least soem of the reduplicative processes analyzed as vowelless with a subsequent insertion of schwa might be better analyzed as having an underlying full vowel that reduces when unstressed. The problems with the demonstratives involve the two formatives referring to place and their relationship to a preposition /ƛ̕ə ʔ / which indicates direction toward a specific place. It is my hope that this work will be useful despite its holes. They will never be all patched; all grammars leak. A Elsie Claxton put it when as a summer was coming to an end I expressed to her how much more I wanted to learn about her language: sk̕ʷ ey kʷs ʔaw̕ k̕ʷ s. Theres no end to it. Research for this work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities through the Northwest Indian Languages Studies Project under the direction of Professor Laurence C. Thompson and by grants from the Melville and Elizabeth Jacobs Fund of the Whatcom Museum and the Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society. Office space and computer facili