The Emergence of Determiner Clisis in Upriver Halkomelem

Authors

  • Jason Brown University of Auckland
  • James Thompson Vancouver BC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14288/nwjl.v7i1.203444

Keywords:

clitics, determiners, connected speech, narrative, prosody

Abstract

Determiners in Upriver Halkomelem (Coast Salish) cliticize onto the previous element in connected speech, resulting in a prosody/syntax mismatch. This study, utilizing two recorded narrative texts by two speakers of Upriver Halkomelem, investigates the motivation for this process. Syntactic and phonological analyses are entertained, and rejected in light of further data which illustrates that there is a wider context that involves cliticization.

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Published

2026-10-02

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2013)

Section

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Copyright (c) 2013 Jason Brown, James Thompson

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