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

20.4. Comparative constructions: The Quality Comparative

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Models
1)XEM TŦE NE SȻÁ¸ NE MO͸ ‘My basket is heavier
       ¸E TŦE EN¸ SȻÁ¸ EN¸ MO͸.      than your basket.’
2)XEM TŦE NE SȻÁ¸ NE MO͸ ‘My basket is heavier
        ¸E TŦE EN¸ SȻÁ¸.        than yours.’
3)XEM TŦE NE MO͸ ‘My basket is heavier
       ¸E TŦE EN¸ MO͸.      than your basket.’
4)XEM TŦE NE MO͸ ‘My basket is heavier
       ¸E TŦE EN¸ SȻÁ¸.      than yours.’
5)XEM TŦE SḴÁXE¸ ‘The dog is heavier
       ¸E TŦE PUS.      than the cat.’

‣ 1 This is the third of three comparative constructions found in SENĆOŦEN. We will call this the Quality Comparative.
‣ 2 This is called the ‘Quality Comparative’ because its most characteristic feature is that quality being compared is the first word in the sentence.
‣ 3 This is the simplest of the three comparative constructions. This is a simple sentence that has the quality as the main, intransitive verb. Here is the formula for the Quality Comparative:
          QUALITY   X   ¸E  Y  
‣ 4 This pattern is most frequently used with the emphatic possessive (§5.2).  However, it is entirely grammatical to use it without any possessive, as the last model shows.
 
XEM TŦE EN¸ SȻÁ¸ NE MO͸ ‘Your basket is heavier
      ¸E TŦE EN¸ SȻÁ¸ NE MO͸.       than my basket.’
HÁE. ÁN¸ U¸ ṈEN¸ NE SḴEĆE¸.‘Yes. I really harvested a lot.’
STÁṈ OĆE EN¸ SḴEĆE¸?‘What did you get?’
ȽEMEȾEṈ SEN ¸E TŦE S₭ELÁLṈEW̱.‘I picked blackberries.’
 
20.4A. Translate each of the following into English.
1. QOMQEM TŦE NE STIḴIU ¸E TŦE SȻÁ¸S.
2. X̱EṈ TŦE STIḴIU ¸E TŦE SḴÁXE¸.
3. ÍY¸ E TŦE EN¸ S¸IȽEN ¸E TŦE NE SȻÁ?
4. MEMIM¸EN¸ TŦE PUS ȽTE ¸E TŦE EN¸ PUS.
5. ĆEḴ TŦE NE SȻÁ¸ NE SMÍYEŦ ¸E TŦE EN¸ SȻÁ¸.		20.4B. Translate each of the following into SENĆOŦEN using the Quality Comparative.
1. My dog is bigger than your dog.
2. Your canoe is faster than mine.
3. Is your father older than mine?
4. My cat is stronger than your dog.
5. This one here is better than that one.
20.4C. Make four more SENĆOŦEN sentences using the quality comparative.

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