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An idiomatic phrase that I think should be taught more…
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Are “resumptive pronouns” an Active- (non-Stative) verb marker? No.
It occurred to me to wonder this.
How sexy is ɬíx(-)ɬix?
My previous comments about the uncertain gender of Victoria Howard’s monstrous antagonist in her tale “Just One His Leg, Just One His Arm” lead me to talk about sexual behavior.
Álta: a note on Perfective aspect
There’s much more to be said about verbal “aspect” in Chinuk Wawa … here’s a bit …
1792: The surprising actual distribution of Nootka Jargon (Meany 1957 edition of Vancouver 1801)
The single important fact to stress is, we’ve known almost nothing about the late-1700s “Nootka Jargon”!
1792 and 1794: More evidence against wide Nootka Jargon use (Vancouver 1802)
Today’s information source is “A narrative or journal of a voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world: Performed in the years 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795″ credited… Continue reading
Found: an etymology for kʰíyəp ‘dark’
kʰíyəp ‘darkness, dark’ is said in the 2012 Grand Ronde dictionary to be “of obscure origin”.
World War 1: Pierriche’s Chinook letter from the front
Father JMR Le Jeune of Kamloops brings us a Chinook Jargon letter that he received from the front lines of World War 1.
Found: an etymology for Grand Ronde’s ‘jail’
I’m very intrigued that in the southern creole CW-speaking community of Grand Ronde, Oregon — and only there — we find skúkum-háws as just one of several expressions for ‘jail’.
Linguistic archaeology: On the vintage of “skookum house”
At this stage in Chinuk Wawa research, we often have a pretty clear idea of the first known historical occurrence of individual “words” of CW.