Hilda J Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 156644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilda J Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilda J |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4904-8828 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Developing a Screen for Foster Care and the Risk of Homelessness
Engaging, empowering, and connecting youth with foster care histories: Impact of the BraveLife Intervention
Interventions for youth with foster care experiences can be vital in supporting youth as they transition out of care. The BraveLife Intervention (BLI), is a youth-centered, strength-based program developed to empower youth. This study examined the impact of BLI on perceived support, empowerment, self-advocacy, self-esteem, and resiliency for at-risk youth aged fourteen to twenty-one years. A repeated measures ANOVA for youth who stayed with the B…
Perceptions of a Youth-Serving Training Program: A case study
St’át’imcets frustratives as not-at-issue modals
This paper provides an analysis of the ‘frustrative’ marker séna7 in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish), and compares it to similar elements cross-linguistically. Séna7 appears in a range of discourse contexts, including when events have an unexpected outcome, fail to continue, or fail to take place optimally. We argue that séna7 felicitously applies to a proposition p only if there is a salient true proposition q and the speaker did not expect p and…
Nobody's Perfect
This paper challenges the cross-linguistic validity of the tense-aspect category 'perfect' by investigating 15 languages from eight different families (Atayal, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, English, German, Gitksan, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Mandarin, Niuean, Québec French, St'át'imcets, Swahili, and Tibetan). The methodology involves using the storyboard 'Miss Smith's Bad Day' to test for the availability of experiential, resultative, recent-pa…
Voices about foster care: The value of trust
Only Connect! Determiners, Case, and Agreement in Tsimshianic
Ever since they were first described and named by Boas in the early twentieth century, the determiner-like elements known as "connectives" in the literature on Tsimshianic languages have posed a puzzle: though the two branches of the family (Maritime and Interior) are otherwise very closely related, their connective systems appear to be quite distinct. In this paper, I produce a comprehensive analysis of connectives in both branches of the family…
Gitksan
Gitksan (git) is an Interior Tsimshianic language spoken in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is closely related to Nisga'a, and more distantly related to Coast Tsimshian and Southern Tsimshian. The specific dialect of Gitksan presented here is what can be called Eastern Gitksan, spoken in the villages of Kispiox (Ansbayaxw), Glen Vowell (Sigit'ox), and Hazelton (Git-an'maaxs), which contrasts with the Western dialects, spoken in the vill…
Diversity driven but cognitively constrained: Boas meets Chomsky (Response to commentators)
Diversity driven but cognitively constrained:Boas meets Chomsky (Response to commentators) Henry Davis, Carrie Gillon, and Lisa Matthewson 1. Introduction We would like to begin by thanking de Reuse, Dryer, and Haspel-math for their thoughtful and constructive replies to our target article (Davis et al. 2014) on how best to uncover linguistic diversity. All three of our respondents point out that there is a considerable amount of common ground be…
Lillooet Bird Names
This article contains an annotated list of all bird names recorded in the Lillooet language, compiled by the authors over the course of many years of fieldwork in Lillooet territory (British Columbia, Canada). Although in most cases we have managed to identify the bird species referred to by the Lillooet terms, in a few cases we have not yet been able to do so. This is due to a number of factors, which include problems with using standard field g…
How to investigate linguistic diversity: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest
On the basis of five case studies from languages of the American Pacific Northwest, we argue that, at least in the areas of syntax and semantics, a scientific approach to the study of linguistic diversity must be empirically grounded in theoretically informed, hypothesis-driven fieldwork on individual languages. This runs counter to recent high-profile claims that large-scale typology based on the sampling of descriptive grammars yields superior …
Cross-linguistic variation in anaphoric dependencies: Evidence from the Pacific Northwest
Issues in Salish Syntax and Semantics
The Salish language family is of special interest for syntactic and semantic theory because it has been argued to differ radically from Indo‐European languages in both structure and interpretation (see, e.g., ; ; ; ; ; ). In this article, we survey four theoretical debates in the syntactic and semantic literature on Salish, one from each of the areas of lexical semantics, super‐lexical syntax, semantics and pragmatics, with an eye to pinning down…
Modals as distributive indefinites
Southern Wakashan: Descriptive and Theoretical Perspectives
This special volume of CJL/RCL is the first collection of papers devoted specifically to the Southern Wakashan languages Makah, Ditidaht (also known as Nitinat), and Nuu-chah-nulth (also known as Nootka). These three closely related languages form a continuum stretching from the northwest tip of Washington State to northwest Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The Southern Wakashan languages are remarkable for the typologically unusual traits t…
Condition C Effects in Nuu-chah-nulth
Nuu-chah-nulth presents a set of exceptions to Condition C of the Binding Theory that involves co-construal between certain R-expressions and a c-commanding pronoun. These exceptions to Condition C are not reducible to structural properties of the language, and are not confined to coreference anaphora, as they extend to bound variables without quantificational antecedents. Nuu-chah-nulth also shows strong crossover effects, and more generally obe…
Evidentials as epistemic modals: Evidence from St'át'imcets
This paper argues that evidential clitics in St'át'imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet; Northern Interior Salish) must be analyzed as epistemic modals.We apply a range of tests which distinguish the modal analysis from the main alternative contender (an illocutionary operator analysis, as in Faller 2002), and show that the St'át'imcets evidentials obey the predictions of a modal analysis. Our results support the growing body of evidence that the functions of…
On the Syntax and Semantics of Negation in Salish
This paper examines the syntax and semantics of negation across Salish. Three widespread and one geographically restricted pattern are distinguished across the family. Two of the widespread patterns (A and B), as well as the restricted pattern (B′), involve a negative predicate selecting for a clausal complement. In pattern A, the negated clause is nominalized: I analyze this as a case of negative existential quantification over minimal situation…
Remarks on Proto-Salish Subject Inflection
The History of Seminole Clothing and Its Multi-Colored Designs
Pastoral Care
Evidentials as epistemic modals: Evidence from St'át'imcets
This paper argues that evidential clitics in St'át'imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet; Northern Interior Salish) must be analyzed as epistemic modals.We apply a range of tests which distinguish the modal analysis from the main alternative contender (an illocutionary operator analysis, as in Faller 2002), and show that the St'át'imcets evidentials obey the predictions of a modal analysis. Our results support the growing body of evidence that the functions of…
Modals as distributive indefinites
How to investigate linguistic diversity: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest
On the basis of five case studies from languages of the American Pacific Northwest, we argue that, at least in the areas of syntax and semantics, a scientific approach to the study of linguistic diversity must be empirically grounded in theoretically informed, hypothesis-driven fieldwork on individual languages. This runs counter to recent high-profile claims that large-scale typology based on the sampling of descriptive grammars yields superior …
Remarks on Proto-Salish Subject Inflection
Voices about foster care: The value of trust
Nobody's Perfect
This paper challenges the cross-linguistic validity of the tense-aspect category 'perfect' by investigating 15 languages from eight different families (Atayal, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, English, German, Gitksan, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Mandarin, Niuean, Québec French, St'át'imcets, Swahili, and Tibetan). The methodology involves using the storyboard 'Miss Smith's Bad Day' to test for the availability of experiential, resultative, recent-pa…
Only Connect! Determiners, Case, and Agreement in Tsimshianic
Ever since they were first described and named by Boas in the early twentieth century, the determiner-like elements known as "connectives" in the literature on Tsimshianic languages have posed a puzzle: though the two branches of the family (Maritime and Interior) are otherwise very closely related, their connective systems appear to be quite distinct. In this paper, I produce a comprehensive analysis of connectives in both branches of the family…
Cross-linguistic variation in anaphoric dependencies: Evidence from the Pacific Northwest
Issues in Salish Syntax and Semantics
The Salish language family is of special interest for syntactic and semantic theory because it has been argued to differ radically from Indo‐European languages in both structure and interpretation (see, e.g., ; ; ; ; ; ). In this article, we survey four theoretical debates in the syntactic and semantic literature on Salish, one from each of the areas of lexical semantics, super‐lexical syntax, semantics and pragmatics, with an eye to pinning down…
Gitksan
Gitksan (git) is an Interior Tsimshianic language spoken in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is closely related to Nisga'a, and more distantly related to Coast Tsimshian and Southern Tsimshian. The specific dialect of Gitksan presented here is what can be called Eastern Gitksan, spoken in the villages of Kispiox (Ansbayaxw), Glen Vowell (Sigit'ox), and Hazelton (Git-an'maaxs), which contrasts with the Western dialects, spoken in the vill…
Diversity driven but cognitively constrained: Boas meets Chomsky (Response to commentators)
Diversity driven but cognitively constrained:Boas meets Chomsky (Response to commentators) Henry Davis, Carrie Gillon, and Lisa Matthewson 1. Introduction We would like to begin by thanking de Reuse, Dryer, and Haspel-math for their thoughtful and constructive replies to our target article (Davis et al. 2014) on how best to uncover linguistic diversity. All three of our respondents point out that there is a considerable amount of common ground be…
The History of Seminole Clothing and Its Multi-Colored Designs
Pastoral Care
The History of Seminole Clothing and Its Multi-Colored Designs
Remarks on Proto-Salish Subject Inflection
On the Syntax and Semantics of Negation in Salish
This paper examines the syntax and semantics of negation across Salish. Three widespread and one geographically restricted pattern are distinguished across the family. Two of the widespread patterns (A and B), as well as the restricted pattern (B′), involve a negative predicate selecting for a clausal complement. In pattern A, the negated clause is nominalized: I analyze this as a case of negative existential quantification over minimal situation…
Southern Wakashan: Descriptive and Theoretical Perspectives
This special volume of CJL/RCL is the first collection of papers devoted specifically to the Southern Wakashan languages Makah, Ditidaht (also known as Nitinat), and Nuu-chah-nulth (also known as Nootka). These three closely related languages form a continuum stretching from the northwest tip of Washington State to northwest Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The Southern Wakashan languages are remarkable for the typologically unusual traits t…
Condition C Effects in Nuu-chah-nulth
Nuu-chah-nulth presents a set of exceptions to Condition C of the Binding Theory that involves co-construal between certain R-expressions and a c-commanding pronoun. These exceptions to Condition C are not reducible to structural properties of the language, and are not confined to coreference anaphora, as they extend to bound variables without quantificational antecedents. Nuu-chah-nulth also shows strong crossover effects, and more generally obe…
Evidentials as epistemic modals: Evidence from St'át'imcets
This paper argues that evidential clitics in St'át'imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet; Northern Interior Salish) must be analyzed as epistemic modals.We apply a range of tests which distinguish the modal analysis from the main alternative contender (an illocutionary operator analysis, as in Faller 2002), and show that the St'át'imcets evidentials obey the predictions of a modal analysis. Our results support the growing body of evidence that the functions of…
Modals as distributive indefinites
Cross-linguistic variation in anaphoric dependencies: Evidence from the Pacific Northwest
Issues in Salish Syntax and Semantics
The Salish language family is of special interest for syntactic and semantic theory because it has been argued to differ radically from Indo‐European languages in both structure and interpretation (see, e.g., ; ; ; ; ; ). In this article, we survey four theoretical debates in the syntactic and semantic literature on Salish, one from each of the areas of lexical semantics, super‐lexical syntax, semantics and pragmatics, with an eye to pinning down…
Lillooet Bird Names
This article contains an annotated list of all bird names recorded in the Lillooet language, compiled by the authors over the course of many years of fieldwork in Lillooet territory (British Columbia, Canada). Although in most cases we have managed to identify the bird species referred to by the Lillooet terms, in a few cases we have not yet been able to do so. This is due to a number of factors, which include problems with using standard field g…
How to investigate linguistic diversity: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest
On the basis of five case studies from languages of the American Pacific Northwest, we argue that, at least in the areas of syntax and semantics, a scientific approach to the study of linguistic diversity must be empirically grounded in theoretically informed, hypothesis-driven fieldwork on individual languages. This runs counter to recent high-profile claims that large-scale typology based on the sampling of descriptive grammars yields superior …
Diversity driven but cognitively constrained: Boas meets Chomsky (Response to commentators)
Diversity driven but cognitively constrained:Boas meets Chomsky (Response to commentators) Henry Davis, Carrie Gillon, and Lisa Matthewson 1. Introduction We would like to begin by thanking de Reuse, Dryer, and Haspel-math for their thoughtful and constructive replies to our target article (Davis et al. 2014) on how best to uncover linguistic diversity. All three of our respondents point out that there is a considerable amount of common ground be…
Gitksan
Gitksan (git) is an Interior Tsimshianic language spoken in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is closely related to Nisga'a, and more distantly related to Coast Tsimshian and Southern Tsimshian. The specific dialect of Gitksan presented here is what can be called Eastern Gitksan, spoken in the villages of Kispiox (Ansbayaxw), Glen Vowell (Sigit'ox), and Hazelton (Git-an'maaxs), which contrasts with the Western dialects, spoken in the vill…
Only Connect! Determiners, Case, and Agreement in Tsimshianic
Ever since they were first described and named by Boas in the early twentieth century, the determiner-like elements known as "connectives" in the literature on Tsimshianic languages have posed a puzzle: though the two branches of the family (Maritime and Interior) are otherwise very closely related, their connective systems appear to be quite distinct. In this paper, I produce a comprehensive analysis of connectives in both branches of the family…
Voices about foster care: The value of trust
St’át’imcets frustratives as not-at-issue modals
This paper provides an analysis of the ‘frustrative’ marker séna7 in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish), and compares it to similar elements cross-linguistically. Séna7 appears in a range of discourse contexts, including when events have an unexpected outcome, fail to continue, or fail to take place optimally. We argue that séna7 felicitously applies to a proposition p only if there is a salient true proposition q and the speaker did not expect p and…
Nobody's Perfect
This paper challenges the cross-linguistic validity of the tense-aspect category 'perfect' by investigating 15 languages from eight different families (Atayal, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, English, German, Gitksan, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Mandarin, Niuean, Québec French, St'át'imcets, Swahili, and Tibetan). The methodology involves using the storyboard 'Miss Smith's Bad Day' to test for the availability of experiential, resultative, recent-pa…
Perceptions of a Youth-Serving Training Program: A case study
Engaging, empowering, and connecting youth with foster care histories: Impact of the BraveLife Intervention
Interventions for youth with foster care experiences can be vital in supporting youth as they transition out of care. The BraveLife Intervention (BLI), is a youth-centered, strength-based program developed to empower youth. This study examined the impact of BLI on perceived support, empowerment, self-advocacy, self-esteem, and resiliency for at-risk youth aged fourteen to twenty-one years. A repeated measures ANOVA for youth who stayed with the B…
Developing a Screen for Foster Care and the Risk of Homelessness
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