SENĆOŦEN: A Grammar of the Saanich Language Main Menu Contents Preface Acknowledgments PART 1 Introduction The organization of this grammar The Place of SENĆOŦEN in the Salishan Language Family Basics of the SENĆOŦEN word Useful phrases PART 2 The SENĆOŦEN Alphabet and Sounds Consonants Vowels and Diphthongs Notes on Pronunciation PART 3 SENĆOŦEN Grammatical Patterns 1 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs 2 Past and Future Tense 3 Basic Speech Acts 4 Nouns and Articles 5 Possessive Pronouns 6 Adjectives 7 Basic Word Order 8 The Preposition 9 Serial Verbs 10 Auxiliaries 11 Conjunction: ‘And/with’ and ‘but/without’ 12 No and Not 13 Self and Each Other 14 More Negative Words 15 Questions: ‘Who?,’ ‘What?,’ ‘Someone,’ ‘Something’ 16 Questions: ‘Do what?,’ ‘Say what?,’ and ‘Which one?’ 17 Subordinate Subjects in Questions 18 Questions: ‘Whose?’ 19 Every, All, Any, and Some 20 Comparison 21 Questions: ‘When?’ 22 Numbers 23 Time Expressions 24 Time Prefixes 25 Questions: ‘Where?’ 26 Location Expressions 27 Paths 28 Questions: ‘How?’ and ‘How much?’ 29 Adverbial Expressions 30 Conditional Clauses 31 Should, Must, Ought to, Want to 32 Object Pronouns 33 Passive 34 Strong, Weak, and Zero Stems 35 Participant Roles and Middle Voice 36 Recipient, Beneficiary, and Other Participants 37 Lexical Suffixes 38 Questions: ‘Why?’ 39 Because 40 Cause 41 Collective Plural 42 The Actual Aspect 43 State, Result, and Duration 44 Activity Suffixes 45 Reflexive, Inchoative, and Noncontrol Middle 46 Ȼ Clauses 47 Relative Clauses 48 Speech Act Modifiers 49 Possessed Verbs 50 Summary of Particles with Ȼ 51 So Then ... 52 Reporting Verbs and Direct Quotes 53 Indirect Quotes 54 Verbal Prefixes 55 Nominalizing Prefixes 56 Adverbial Prefixes 57 More Demonstrative Articles 58 Objects of Intent and Emotion 59 More Reduplication Patterns 60 Interjections 61 Politeness Expressions 62 Rare Prefixes and Suffixes 63 A Fully Annotated Text 64 Texts to Annotate Appendix A: Technical Description of SENĆOŦEN Sounds Appendix B: SENĆOŦEN Pronouns Appendix C: Demonstrative Articles Appendix D: SENĆOŦEN Kin Terms Appendix E: Index to Technical Linguistic Topics Appendix F: Vocabulary Bibliography SENĆOŦEN Dictionary Basic SENĆOŦEN Dictionary without root and affix indexes

16.3. ‘Which one?’

43373 17 Subordinate Subjects in Questions
Models
1)TEXIN ¸E TŦE MO͸?‘Which is the basket?’
2)NIȽ TEXIN?‘Which one is it?’
3)TEXIN¸ṈEN ¸E TŦE SMÍEŦ?‘Which part of the deer?’
4)NIȽ TEXIN¸ṈEN?‘Which part is it?

‣ 1 The basic word meaning ‘to be which’ is TEXIN. This is an intransitive verb in SENĆOŦEN.
‣ 2 TEXIN never takes an ‘I’ or ‘you’ subject and is never followed by a direct noun phrase (§8.1).
‣ 3 The first model is a pattern that is useful to know and use. If you have a group of various things, use this pattern to identify one.  
‣ 4 Note that the thing to be identified must be specified as the object of the preposition.
‣ 5 The second model shows that the use of the focus pronoun gives a sense of ‘which one’. Other focus pronouns could be used. For example, NEȻE TEXIN? ‘Which one are you?’ This could be used, for example, when looking at an old group photograph.
‣ 6 The second ‘which?’ word, shown in models 3 and 4, is obviously built on TEXIN. TEXIN¸ṈEN is TEXIN with the ‑ṈEN ‘piece, part’ suffix. This is one of the lexical suffixes covered in §37.
‣ 7 TEXIN¸ṈEN means ‘which part’ or ‘which piece.’ It can also be translated ‘what part’ or ‘what piece.’ The grammar of TEXIN¸ṈEN is essentially the same as the grammar of TEXIN.
‣ 8 In English ‘which’ can be a question word, as in the models, or it can be a relative pronoun as in ‘The hat which I wore.’ An important difference between English and SENĆOŦEN is that TEXIN is never used as a relative pronoun. Relative clauses are covered in detail in §47.
 
NIȽ TEXIN ¸E TŦE ŦEḴI¸?‘Which one is the sockeye?’
ÁȽETI ȽÁ¸E TŦE ŦEḴI¸.‘This one here is the sockeye.’
TEXIN¸ṈEN EN¸ SṮI¸ ¸E TŦE SĆÁÁNEW̱?‘What part of the salmon do you want?’
NE SṮI¸ TŦE S₭OṈI¸I¸Ḱ.‘I want the fish head.’
 
16.3A. Translate each of the following into English.
1. TEXIN¸ṈEN EN¸ SṮI¸?
2. NIȽ TEXIN ¸E TŦE EN¸ SNEW̱EȽ?
3. NIȽ TEXIN ¸E TŦE NE S¸IȽEN?
4. NIȽ TEXIN¸ṈEN ¸E TŦE SMÍEŦ?
5. TEXIN¸ṈEN ¸E TŦE SNEW̱EȽ?		16.3B. Translate each of the following into SENĆOŦEN.
1. Which one am I?
2. Which is the dog?
3. Which part of the canoe is it?
4. Which one is big?
5. Which part do you want?
16.3C. Make up four more sentences using TEXIN.

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  1. 8.1. The preposition ¸E in the passive
  2. 37 Lexical Suffixes
  3. 47 Relative Clauses