1936, WA: Seriously, yet another version of the “sitkum dolla” joke!
Keeping score, I count 2 jokes within this late telling of our venerable PNW joke.
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1900, OR: A litany of stock Jargon phrases substitutes for Latin
The graduation ceremony of an Oregon medical school probably didn’t really contain this faux-dignified humorous address in “the classic Chinook“…
Pidgin and creole languages LOVE “Ø” Object pronouns!
I’ll keep this as minimal as I can, in the spirit of the topic of “silent pronouns”.
1905, WA: German-American social invitation
Nahh! Our Chinook invitation files are bulging.
Poser 2003 on ᑐᑊᘁᗕᑋᗸ…there are many parallels with Chinuk Pipa
I’m in the business of checking everything that’s said in the scholarly world about Chinook Jargon, so today I’ll have a look at a paper by my friend Bill Poser.
Is {overt pronoun subject} + Verb from Indo-European?
Here’s a very simple point about the early formation of Chinook Jargon.
Do Active/Stative languages have Causatives?
Previous linguistic researchers, including me, have called the mamuk- (in the Southern Dialect munk-) formation of verbs a “Causative”, which isn’t totally wrong.
1897, BC: words for ‘breast(s)’, and Red River Métis
You may recall, I’ve previously written about the word tit in Northern Chinook Jargon.
“The Survey of Vancouver English”: Part 2, “skookum”
An interesting report, “The Survey of Vancouver English“, is subtitled “A Sociolinguistic Study of Urban Canadian English”.
“Frazer’s River” BC timeline, 1858 — how the Jargon suddenly got brought into New Caledonia
A rare clear starting point in language history is the introduction of Chinook Jargon into mainland British Columbia (New Caledonia then), which we can place in 1858.