SENĆOŦEN: A Grammar of the Saanich Language
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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