A concise dictionary of the Nuuchahnulth language of Vancouver Island

PM2031

2005-041528

0-7734-6138-8

A concise dictionary of the Nuuchahnulth language of Vancouver Island.

Title main entry. Compiled and ed. by John T. Stonham. (Native American studies; v.17)

Edwin Mellen Pr., [c]2005

537 p.

$139.95

For some 20 years, Stonham (linguistics, U. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) has been researching the language of the Nuuchahnulth, a group of First Nations peoples occupying the west coast of Vancouver Island. His dictionary is the first attempt to provide a detailed account of the lexicon of the Nuuchahnulth language, complete with examples and grammatical information. The work is based primarily on fieldnotes gathered by Edward Sapir between 1910 and 1922, fieldnotes by Morris Swadesh in the 1940s, and Stonham's own field research since the 1980s. The volume includes a Nuuchahnulth-English dictionary with some 7,000 main entries, an English-Nuuchahnulth glossary of some 8,500 entries consisting of English headwords and their Nuuchahnulth equivalents, and appendices of grammatical paradigms and place names.

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