The Combinatory Properties of Halkomelem Lexical Suffixes

Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2000

Out of Control in Ilokano

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Morphologically-Mediated Relational Profiles

Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Place of Morphology in a Grammar (1992), pp. 322-33

Mapping Transitive Voice in Halkomelem

Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Syntactic Issues in Native American Languages (1993

Antipassives and Causatives in Halkomelem

Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1980), pp. 300-31

The purview effect: Feminine gender on inanimates in Halkomelem Salish

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2013), pp. 417-42

Halkomelem psych applicatives

In Halkomelem, the relational applicative suffix -me÷ is suffixed to an intransitive psychological predicate to form a transitive construction where the experiencer is the subject and the stimulus is the object. We detail the morphosyntactic properties of psych applicatives and contrast them with other constructions formed on the same predicates. A brief look at other languages reveals that psych applicatives are relatively rare in languages of the world but robustly attested in Salish languages. Halkomelem applicatives Halkomelem is a Central Salish language, currently spoken by around one hundred elders in southwest British Columbia. 2 Halkomelem, like other Salish languages, is a polysynthetic language: a rich array of affixes referencing nominals appear in the verb complex, including subject and object inflection, transitive suffixes, lexical suffixes, and applicative suffixes. As previously detailed by Kiyosawa (1999 3 As we outline below, Halkomelem has two of each type. In a REDIRECTIVE applicative, the direct object role is redirected to a non-theme nominal-the applied object. The stem is usually transitive. The semantic role of the applied object is usually goal, benefactive, malefactive, or possessor. We can see the syntactic effect of a 1 Our research is part of an on-going SSHRC-funded project by Donna Gerdts and Tom Hukari to study classes of verb roots and how they combine with prefixes and suffixes. Also this is part of a pan-Salish study on applicatives that Kaoru Kiyosawa is writing as a dissertation. Versions of this paper were presented as Kiyosawa (2003a, 2003b) and we thank those audiences for their questions and comments. We also thank Tom Hukari and Charles Ulrich for suggestions and criticisms. 2 The data that we present here are based on our original fieldwork with speakers of the Island dialect (h;¬oe;mí∫;µ) and the Downriver dialect (h;∫oe;mí∫;µ). We label the latter data as (DR). Our field research has been funded by grants from Jacobs Fund, SFU, and SSHRC. We would like to thank the speakers who have worked with us on this data, including Arnold Guerin, Bill Seward, Theresa Thorne, and especially Ruby Peter. Errors remain our own responsibility. 3 The concept of dividing applicatives into two types has now become generally recognized typologically (e.g. Payne 2000) and formally (e.g. McGinnis 2001 and references therein)

Locatives vs. Instrumentals in Kinyarwanda

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on African Language Structures (1991), pp. 87-9

A Closer Look at Salish Intransitive/Transitive Alternations

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