Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem

Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 1728
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ISBN-10 : 9780520098725
ISBN-13 : 0520098722
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Book Synopsis Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem by : Brent Douglas Galloway

Download or read book Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem written by Brent Douglas Galloway and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 1728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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