Salish Applicatives

Kaoru Kiyosawa, Ph.D. (2007) in Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, has worked intensively on the comparative study in Salish languages. Her research includes the morphosyntactic analysis of verbal afffixes such as object agreement and transitive inflection.Donna B. Gerdts, Ph.D. (1982) in Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, is Professor of Linguistics at Simon Fraser University. She has published extensively on the morphology, syntax, and semantics of Halkomelem Salish, based on over thirty years of fieldwork with elders in British Columbia.

• CONTENTSList of FiguresList of TablesList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsChapter One Introduction Chapter Two The Morphosyntax of Salish ApplicativesChapter Three Relational ApplicativesChapter Four Redirective ApplicativesChapter Five Exceptional Applicative SuffixesChapter Six A Closer Look at Transitive MarkingChapter Seven Combinatory Properties of ApplicativesChapter Eight Discourse Functions of Salish ApplicativesChapter Nine Cross-linguistic PerspectivesChapter Ten ConclusionBibliographyIndicesAuthor IndexLanguage IndexSubject Index