Old Records of Three Contiguous Pacific Northwest Languages
Bella Coola, Carrier, Shuswap
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3777937 |
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| Authors | Hank Nater (0000-0003-4511-5760, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 183-191 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5483 • E-ISSN: 1944-6527 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anl.2020.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W3215230941 |
| Language | EN |
I examine language samples recorded by the Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie, who established contact with local people in the Shuswap–Carrier–Bella Coola macroregion in 1793. The first short word list he presents affords proof of drag chain sound shifts in Carrier and lexical changes in a northwestern Shuswap dialect, and the second one illustrates the shift of *...an# to ...a# in Bella Coola. Together with Mackenzie’s data, Daniel Harmon’s 1820 Carrier word list provides a time line for completion of certain sound shifts in Carrier. Additionally, the Shuswap dialect observed by Mackenzie clearly differed from current Shuswap dialects on the lexical level
Art · BELLA · Ethnology · Geography · Humanities · Language shift · Linguistics · Physics · Word (group theory) · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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