Implications of ɬúsh-íliʔi
Here’s another meditation on Grand Ronde elder Victoria Howard’s traditional monster story, “Just One His Leg. Just One His Arm”.
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1895: “The Siwash”: evidence against pre-contact CW + new discoveries (part 1)
Here’s a book that starts with a surprise!
1880: Barclay Sound interpretation
I’ve recently shown you how widespread the use of Chinuk Wawa was in late-1800s Vancouver Island…
Is Franchère’s 1820 [~1813] lexicon only simplified Chinookan?
When I shared Gabriel Franchère’s 1820 publication of a small “Chinouque” vocabulary the other day, I received a good question from Prof. Mikael Parkvall about this early document of a forerunner of modern… Continue reading
From Z to A: Correcting a small mistake about tree ‘limbs’?
“Salmon Cedar Rope — State I” by Susan Point, Coast Salish (image credit: Da Vic Gallery) “A young man said he saw a rope of cedar limbs“…
1895: More about Mr. DeShaw, Seattle-area court interpreter
More about sometime court interpreter Mr. DeShaw (in a book that I’ll write separately about) :
Indefinite specific : indefinite nonspecific :: A CW pattern?
Today I’m using this website as my linguistic notebook…
1880s: Snake River CW
As late in the frontier era as they were, eastern Washington pioneer times still involved Chinuk Wawa being spoken between Indians and Whites.
1888: A sermon by Myron Eells (part 2)
The second page (page 33) of this sermon, published in Horatio Hale’s popular book about Chinuk Wawa titled “An International Idiom” (1890).
Subordinate clauses are simple…
…Well, at least simpler than main clauses.