Animacy, Salish, and Chinuk Wawa
In a paper published in 2007, I initially speculated that grammatical “animacy” in Chinuk Wawa would turn out to have something to do with Salish…
Monthly Archive: January, 2020
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1856: A day late & a made-beaver short
Here’s someone so opionionated that he argues “it could never happen”, when discussing someone’s report of it happening…
1906: BC Dene talk Chinook
V.M. Scribner of Spokane, Washington wrote an informative letter to a sportsmen’s magazine editor, published as “A Good Game District”.
Why not pork? Or lard?
Why don’t we find (le) porc ‘pig’ from French in Chinuk Wawa?
Myron Eells speaks, Part 2 of 3
From 1882, another report from frontier Protestant missionary Myron Eells showing the importance of Chinuk Wawa in northern Puget Sound areas…
Etymology of pʰasáyuks
{Edited to add more information about “français” in North America…] The dictionary published in 2012 by the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is the best you can get…
1901: Martha Douglas Harris’s “Chee-chee-ka” (Part 3)
As our story develops, we find signs of the author’s ties to old Fort Vancouver.
LBDB: Prose, not lyrics (Part 3)
More investigation into just how well Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett, author of a book of hard-to-sing Chinook Jargon songs, spoke the language…
1909: Quinault “Capoeman” & Chinook Jargon cops
As I work on a 1909 (and earlier) manuscript from a priest, I may be finding new news about the family name “Capoeman”.
“tiki kʰapa” is good Jargon for ‘love’
Certain occurrences in Chinuk Wawa stories etc. that I’ve remarked on as oddities…