DR. Suzanne Urbanczyk (PI)
Dr. Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins CI
Dr. Tom Hukari CI
Research Collaborator:
Dr. John McCarthy

SSHRCC Research Grant

OBJECTIVES

This grant aims to document the role of homophony avoidance (different
meanings expressed by different forms) in Salish and neighbouring languages.

It explores the role of maintaining contrasting meanings by having contrasting forms, primarily in Salish languages, but also in Wakashan languages and creoles. It also investigates the role that making changes to the forms of words (rather than adding affixes) has in expressing different meanings.

PAPERS / PUBLICATIONS/ PRESENTATIONS

Strandquist, Rachel. 2003. Truncation and Homophony Avoidance in Mauritian
Creole Reduplication, m.s. University of Victoria

Urbanczyk, Suzanne. to appear. Plurality and Ablaut in Central Salish. in
Gerdts and Matthewson (eds). Festschrift for M. Dale Kinkade. University
of Montana Working Papers in Linguistics.

Urbanczyk, Suzanne. to appear. Enhancing Contrast in Reduplication. in
Hurch, B. (ed) Papers from the Graz Conference on Reduplication. Mouton de
Gruyter.

Urbanczyk, Suzanne. to appear. Paradigm Uniformity and Priority of the
Root in Halkomelem. in Downing, Hall, and Raffelseifen (eds).
Phonological Paradigms. Oxford University Press.

Urbanczyk, Suzanne. 2003. Remnants of ablaut in Coast Salish.
International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages, Lillooet,
BC. August 2003

Urbanczyk, Suzanne. 2004. Whereabouts is ablaut in Salish? Workshop on
Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas 9. Victoria,
BC. Feb. 2004

Invited talks:

Urbanczyk, Suzanne. 2003. The role of non-concatenative morphology in
maintaining contrast. University of British Columbia, Dept. of
Linguistics. Oct. 2003.

Urbanczyk, Suzanne. 2004. Form and Function in Salish Word Structure.
Humanities Centre lecture, University of Victoria, January, 2004.

in progress:

Wealick, Laura and Suzanne Urbanczyk. Verbo: a Sto:lo Halkomelem language
game. m.s. and audio CD. Stó:lo Shxweli Language Programs.

Louie, Jesse and Suzanne Urbanczyk. Comox phrase book. m.s. Klahoose
First Nation.

Robertson, Dave. Resonant glottalization in Nlhekepmxcín. Proceedings of
International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages 39, Squamish
Nation.

Nicolson, Marianne. Visual and verbal conceptualization of space in
Kwak'wala. Proceedings of International Conference on Salish and
Neighbouring Languages 39, Squamish Nation.

STUDENTS FUNDED

Rachel Strandquist
Dave Robertson
Marianne Nicolson

Post-doc project:

Dave McKercher

Non-students:

Laura Wealick
Jessie Louie
Jaalen Edenshaw