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Journal articles on the topic "Kwak'wala"

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Littell, Patrick W. "Kwak'wala "Agreement" as Partial Subject Copy." LSA Annual Meeting Extended Abstracts 3 (April 8, 2012): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/exabs.v0i0.583.

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In the literature on Kwak'wala, a Northern Wakashan language of British Columbia, the term "agreement" refers to a particular phenomenon in which a determiner-like enclitic agreeing with the subject can occur in clause-second position when the subject itself does not. Using subject topicalizations, conjoined predicates, and other structures, I will argue that this phenomenon is not "agreement" as ordinarily understood. Instead, I will propose an account of Kwak'wala agreement in which this enclitic is a partial copy of the subject; that is, that it is movement of the D head of the DP subject u
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Sardinha, Katherine Ann. "The Semantics of Kwak'wala Object Case." Berkeley Papers in Formal Linguistics 1, no. 1 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/bf211039923.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Kwak'wala"

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Moewaki, Ayako. "Quantifiers in Kwak'wala." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/59043.

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This thesis describes and analyzes the syntax and semantics of quantification in Kwak’wala, a Northern Wakashan language spoken on Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland of British Columbia. In standard accounts of quantification, quantifiers can be divided into two categories: strong quantifiers and weak quantifiers (Barwise and Cooper (1981), Keenan (1996), Milsark (1979), Partee (1988)). Taking the strong/weak distinction as a starting point, this thesis documents the syntactic and semantic features of Kwak’wala quantifiers, focusing on wi'la (‘all’), ḵ̓ina̱m (‘many’), and numerals,
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Sherer, Laura. "Nominalization and voice in Kwak'wala." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50196.

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Kwak̓wala appears to give privileged status to the syntactic position of subject in the formation of several clause types that rely on extraction; that is to say, the subject is the only element which can be A'-extracted to form relative clauses, WH-questions, and cleft sentences. For this reason, it has been claimed that any constituent which is not the subject must first become the subject in order to be extracted. This is achieved by marking the predicate of the clause with one of several suffixes which have variously been termed passive markers, focus markers, and nominalizers. This thesi
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Littell, Patrick William. "Focus, predication, and polarity in Kwak'wala." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57609.

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In this dissertation, I investigate the formal semantics and pragmatics of alternative focus in Kwak'wala, a critically endangered Northern Wakashan language of British Columbia, Canada. I show that several notable phenomena and outstanding mysteries of Kwak'wala grammar involve focus expression, and by making their discourse contexts explicit we can observe how changes in discourse-relevant alternatives correspond to changes in morphosyntactic expression. These observations invite reappraisals of classic claims about Kwak'wala and Wakashan grammar, such as the claims that Kwak'wala lacks a no
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Cranmer, Laura. "Reclaiming Kwak'wala through co-constructing G̲wa̲nti'lakw's vision." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55671.

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This dissertation is a self-study about my attempt to re-claim my heritage language of Kwak’wala. As a critically endangered language, the First Peoples’ Cultural Council Report on the Status of BC First Nations Languages 2014 found that of a population of 7,309 Kwakwa̲ka̲’wakw reporting to the council about numbers of fluent and semi-fluent Kwak’wala speakers, there are only 160 fluent speakers with approximately 497 identified semi-speakers. I have written from a critical Indigenous Studies stance, drawing from compatible fields such as narrative inquiry and auto-ethnography, and second lan
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Rosborough, Patricia Christine. "Ḵ̓a̱ngex̱tola sewn-on-top : Kwak'wala revitalization and being indigenous". Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42965.

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Kwak’wala, the language of the Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw, like the languages of all Indigenous peoples of British Columbia, is considered endangered. Documentation and research on Kwak’wala began more than a century ago, and efforts to revitalize Kwak’wala have been under way for more than three decades. For Indigenous peoples in colonizing societies, language revitalization is a complex endeavour. Within the fields of language revitalization and Indigenous studies, the practices and policies of colonization have been identified as key factors in Indigenous language decline. This study deepens the u
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Wild, Joy H. "A part of something much bigger : a case study of the Kwak'wala teacher training project." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28308.

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The issues and factors which affected the planning, development and implementation of the Kwak'wala Teacher Training Project, a program for training Kwakwaka'wakw people to teach in the Native language programs of their communities, are described and discussed. The study focuses on the five courses oriented toward teaching methods and the development of teaching materials for the local Native language programs. The over-all purpose of the study is to gain understandings of the factors and issues in Native language teacher education. The specific goals are: 1. To gain an understanding of the
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Goodfellow, Anne Marie. "Language, culture, and identity, social and cultural aspects of language change in two Kwak'wala-speaking communities." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ38891.pdf.

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Nicolson, Marianne. "Yaxa Uḱwine’, yaxa Gukw, dłuwida Awińagwis: “The Body, the House, and the Land”: The Conceptualization of Space in Kwakwaka’wakw Language and Culture". Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5135.

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Kwak’wala is an endangered language spoken by the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nations of the central coast of British Columbia. This dissertation seeks to address the ramifications of Kwak’wala language loss to Kwakwaka’wakw cultural worldview. It asks the general question, “How much of an effect does Kwak’wala language loss have on cultural understanding?” It seeks to answer the question through a specific analysis of the concept of space mapped through linguistic and artistic expression. The concept of space is integral to the understanding of the body in relationship to objects, people, social
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