Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Quick Start -- Sample entries -- About the language -- About the elders -- Abbreviations of related Salish languages and dialects cited in the dictionary -- How to Use the Dictionary (an introduction for those with linguistic training) -- Labels used for each different type of information (fields or bands, Band labels) -- Spelling and orthography -- References -- Halkomelem to English -- a -- ch -- ch' -- e -- h -- i -- k -- k' -- kw -- kw' -- l -- lh -- m -- n -- o -- Ç -- p -- p' -- q -- q' -- qw -- qw' -- R (reduplication) -- s -- sh -- t -- t' -- th -- th' -- tl' -- ts' -- u -- w -- x -- xw -- x -- xw -- y -- ' or ' -- English-to-Halkomelem Index -- a -- b -- c -- d -- e -- f -- g -- h -- i -- j -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- x -- y -- z.

An extensive dictionary (almost 1800 pages) of the Upriver dialects of Halkomelem, an Amerindian language of B.C.,giving information from almost 80 speakers gathered by the author over a period of 40 years. Entries include names and dates of citation, dialect information, phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic information, domain memberships of each alloseme, examples of use in sentences, and much cultural information.

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