Tom has conducted research on Coast Salish languages since 1973, working at first on Puget Salish in Washington State and later concentrating on Hul'q'umi'num' in British Columbia (Vancouver Island Halkomelem spoken from Cowichan Bay to Nanoose Bay on the east coast of the Island). He and Mrs. Ruby Peter have written pedagogical and reference materials for the Cowichan Tribes (including a dictionary), and taught numerous courses for the Tribes on writing and speaking the language. They taught Hul'q'umi'num' at the University of Victoria in the 1999-2000 academic year, and web site materials relating to the course are currently under development through the Humanities Language Centre. He and Dr. Donna Gerdts (Simon Fraser University) are collaborating on a research project which focuses on Hul'q'umi'num' verb morphology and are co-authoring a short grammar of Vancouver Island Hul'q'umi'num' for Lincom Europa.
Future plans include a verb book in which 501 verbs are classified according to the suffixes with which they combine. He is a co-investigator on the CURA Vancouver Island Salish Language Revitalization Project, supervising projects taking place in partnership with the Hul'q'umi'num' Treaty Group.
Selected Works on Unbounded Dependency Constructions
Publications
2006. The Unity Of Unbounded Dependency Constructions. [R. Levine & T. Hukari], CSLI Publications, Leland Stanford Junior University.
In Press. Parasitic Gaps in English: Some overlooked cases and their theoretical
implications. In P. Culicover and P. Postal (eds.), Parasitic Gaps,
MIT Press. [With R. Levine]
Papers Presented
1990. The complement structure of tough constructions. Eastern States
Conference on Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio. [With R. Levine]
1991 Infinitival unbounded dependency constructions. West Coast Conference
on Formal Linguistics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. [With R.
Levine]
1992. Adjunct extraction. Ohio State University, June 1992. [Invited Lecture.
This is a major revision of the previous paper, written with R. Levine.]
1992. Adjunct extraction. University of British Columbia, March 1992. [Invited
lecture.]
1992. Wh-constituents: a chiral constraint on feature percolation paths.
Simon Fraser University, March 1992. [Invited lecture.] Paper written with
R. Levine.
1993. Adjunct extraction. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics,
U.C., Santa Cruz. [with R. Levine]
1993. Adjunct Extraction: a report on the HPSG treatment of extraction
in light of binding domain phenomena. Invited paper at the First HPSG International
Workshop. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. [With R. Levine]
1994. Toward a homogeneous approach to extraction phenomena. Conference
on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Explanatory Mechanisms and Empirical
Consequences. Copenhagen. [with R. Levine]
1994. Unbounded Dependency Constructions and Empty Categories. HPSG Workshop,
ESCCLI, Copenhagen. [With Ivan Sag and Robert Levine]
1995. On SLASH termination and valence-based binding theory. Linguistics
Society of America, New Orleans. [with R. Levine]
1996. On valence and antireconstruction. Western Conference on Linguistics,
University of California, Santa Cruz. [With R. Levine]
1996. Subject extraction. Third International Conference on Head-Driven
Phrase Structure Grammar, Unité de Formation et de Recherche de Linguistique,
Marseilles, France. [with R. Levine]
1999. Parasitic Gaps in English: non-nominal, non-pronominal and case-consistent.
6th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. University
of Edinburgh. [With Robert Levine and Mike Calcagno]
1999. Unbounded dependencies: a unified class. Colloque de Syntaxe et Semantique
a Paris. [With Robert Levine and Mike Calcagno]
Selected Works on Halkomelem
Publications
1995. The Cowichan Dictionary of the Hul'q'umi'num' Dialect
of the Coast Salish People. Duncan, Canada: Cowichan Tribes. [375 pgs.
Includes a grammar, pp 339-374] [With R. Peter]
1998. Inside and Outside the Middle. Papers for the 33rd
International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, Seattle,
166-220. [With D. Gerdts]
2000. Stacked Antipassives in Halkomelem Salish, in Papers
for the 35th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring
Languages. [With D. Gerdts]
In Press. Multiple Antipassives in Halkomelem Salish, in
Proceedings of the Twenty-six Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society, University of California, Berkeley. [With D. Gerdts]
In Press. The Dual Structure of Halkomelem Motion Verbs.
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on American Indigenous Languages,
U.C. Santa Barbara. [With D. Gerdts]
Papers Presented
1994. On Wh-Agreement in Halkomelem Salish. Conference on
Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Explanatory Mechanisms and Empirical
Consequences. Copenhagen.
1994. On Wh-agreement in Halkomelem Salish. Salish Syntax
Workshop. University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
1995. More on Wh-Agreement in Halkomelem. Salish Morphosyntax
Workshop, University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
1996. Anaphora in Hul'q'umi'num'. Salish Morphosyntax Workshop,
University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
1997. Causatives and Transitives: Getting things to move
in Hul'q'umi'num'. Salish Morphosyntax Workshop, University of Victoria,
Victoria. B.C.
2000. A-Subjects and Control in Halkomelem. 7th International
Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, University of California,
Berkeley. [With D. Gerdts]
Thomas E. Hukari has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Oregon and an M.A./Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Washington. Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Victoria, Tom has a long-standing syntax project with Dr. Robert Levine (Ohio State University) concerning the properties of unbounded dependency constructions (UDCs) or "wh-movement" constructions in English within non-transformational approaches to formal syntax. The pair have recently completed a monograph summarizing their approach to UDCs in the context of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, The Unity of Unbounded Dependency Constructions, published by the Center for Language and Information, Stanford, California.