University of British Columbia, 2021. — 245 p. This thesis investigates properties of tenses in English, Japanese, and Gitksan (Tsimshianic) with regards to the two major dimensions along which tense denotations can differ: 1) pronominal (Partee 1973; Enç 1987; Heim 1994) vs. existential (Ogihara 1989; von Stechow 2009) and 2) relative (Smith 1991; Ogihara 1989; Kusumoto 1999)...
Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1979. — 91 p. — (Canadian Ethnology Service. Mercury series 55). The Reference Grammar for the Coast Tsimshian Language is a non-technical introduction to the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Coast Tsimshian as it is currently spoken in Metlakatla, Alaska, Port Simpson, Kitkatla, Hartley Bay, and Prince Rupert, British Columbia. The...
University of British Columbia, 1984. — 77 p. Nisgha has been classified by at least three different linguists as syntactically ergative (Rigsby, Rood, and Tarpent). This is motivated by the fact that in certain constructions the agent of a transitive verb patterns differently than the patient of the transitive or the single argument of an intransitive. A new definition of...
Seattle and London: University of Washington Press; Juneau: Sealaska Heritage Foundation, 1995. — 224 p. In the mid-1970s, Sm’algyax, the language of the Coast Tsimshian people, came under the protection of Canada’s Urgent Ethnology Programme, which commissioned a dictionary by linguist John Dunn. With the help of many Tsimshian consultants, Dunn completed the dictionary in...
Kitwancool, Kitsegukla, and Kitwanga Indian Bands, 1979. — 186 p. This is the first in a series of four Gitksan language books featuring western Gitksan as spoken in Kitwancool, Kitsegukla, and Kitwanga. Book 1 introduces the way to write and pronounce Gitksan, basic grammatical structures, and an extended vocabulary.
Kitwancool, Kitsegukla, and Kitwanga Indian Bands, 1980. — 116 p. This is the second in a series of four Gitksan language books featuring western Gitksan as spoken in the villages of Kitwancool, Kitsegukla, and Kitwanga. Book 2 presents the structure of the Gitksan verb.
Kitwancool, Kitsegukla, and Kitwanga Indian Bands, 1980. — 140 p. This is the third in a series of four Gitksan language books featuring western Gitksan as spoken in Kitwancool, Kitsegukla, and Kitwanga. Book 3 is a study of the uses of adjectives and also includes a Gitksan feast text.
Kitwancool, Kitsegukla, and Kitwanga Indian Bands, 1980. — 130 p. This is the fourth in a series of four Gitksan language books featuring western Gitksan as spoken in the villages of Kitwancool, Kitsegukla, and Kitwanga. Book 4 is a study of sentence patterns for talking about where things are and where one is going.
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994. — 259 p. — (University of California publications in linguistics 124). — ISBN 0-520-09788-2. This study takes the different properties that have been given as examples of ergativity and explores them with respect to the Coast Tsimshian language. First, however, in chapter 1, an overview is given of the genetic affiliations of...
University of British Columbia, 2010. — 301 p. This dissertation provides an empirically driven, theoretically informed investigation of how speakers of Gitksan, a Tsimshianic language spoken in the northwest coast of Canada, express knowledge about the world around them. There are three main goals that motivate this investigation: The first is to provide the first detailed...
Kispiox Band, 1977. — 91 p. These lessons were prepared for the purpose of teaching the Gitksan language in the schools attended by the children of Kispiox, B.C. Gitksan is a language with numerous dialectal variations. The material in this book attempts to provide a bridge between the various forms of the language.
Kispiox Band, 1977. — 89 p. These lessons were prepared for the purpose of teaching the Gitksan language in the schools attended by the children of Kispiox, B.C. Gitksan is a language with numerous dialectal variations. The material in this book attempts to provide a bridge between the various forms of the language.
University of British Columbia, 1984. — 108 p. Nisgha exhibits diverse reduplication types, each type displaying consonant and vowel variation. This thesis investigates the phonological properties of these reduplication types and accounts for them in an autosegmental framework. In particular, the reduplication types are examined in Marantz's framework, as presented in "Re...
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