Henry Thomas Davis is a professor of linguistics at the University of British Columbia. He studies critically endangered indigenous languages of British Columbia, in particular, those of the Salish, Wakashan, and Tsimshianic families. Since 1992 he has been researching the Northern Interior Salish language St'át'imcets (Lilllooet), in partnership with the Upper St'át'imcets Language, Culture and Education Society. He has contributed to the development of a three-volume English-St'át'imcets dictionary, where he worked on both contemporary and historical textual materials. He has done collaborative research on two Wakashan languages: Nuuchahnulth, from the Southern branch, and more recently Kwak'wala, from the North.
Bruno Andreotti is a theoretical and field linguist with a BSc in Linguistics and Philosophy from the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) and an MA in Linguistics from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC). Andreotti's background is in formal semantics, generative syntax, generative phonology, epistemology of science, and decolonial theory.
As of 2024, Roger Lo is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia's Department of Linguistics. Lo's primary research interest lies in the interface between phonetics and phonology. Specifically, information-theoretic approaches to phonology and how this aspect of phonology influences speech processing and sound change.
Gloria Mellesmoen, as of 2024, is a PhD Candidate and Sessional Lecturer at the University of British Columbia Department of Linguistics with a MA in Linguistics from University of Toronto, and BA in English (major), Linguistics (major), and Educational Psychology (minor) from Simon Fraser University. Mellesmoen's research falls within phonetics, phonology, or morphology with an interest in sound changes from Proto-Salish and the morphophonology and semantics of reduplication, from a synchronic and diachronic (comparative Salish) perspective. As well as questions related to variation and heritage languages in the context of First Nations languages.
As of 2024, Daniel K. E. Reisinger is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia's Department of Linguistics. As part of his dissertation Reisinger is developing an interactive online language learning tool for ʔayʔajuθəm (Comox-Sliammon), a Coast Salish language traditionally spoken by four communities along the Northern Strait of Georgia in British Columbia.
Kaining Xu is a former interning Research Assistant for the University of British Columbia's Department of Linguistics Salish Working group where she researched on ʔayʔaǰuθəm focus-sensitive constructions with first nation consultants, developed pedagogical materials, recorded and transcribed stories for the community, and updated ʔayʔaǰuθəm old linguistics fieldwork database while gaining her Bachelor's Degree in Linguistics. Xu has gone on to work in software development.
Donated by Dr. Henry Davis, 2018.
Access to the materials in this collection for the purpose of reading, copying, or other use will be granted only with the donor's permission within 25 years of the date of the Jacobs Research Fund award. After 25 years, the collection will revert to UW Libraries Special Collections.
Includes audio and written materials related to the University of British Columbia's Salish Working Group's linguistic research on the exploration of Éyɂáɂjuuthem (Comox-Sliammon) conducted 2017-2018 under Professor Henry Davis with various graduate and undergraduate researchers including Bruno Andreotti, Roger Lo, Gloria Mellesmoen, Daniel Reisinger, and Kaining Xu. Series are organized by materials gathered from each individual researcher with original organization maintained where possible.
The Tla'amin First Nation, formerly known as the Sliammon Indian Band or Sliammon First Nation, is a First Nations self governing nation located on the upper Sunshine Coast in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. They are closely related to the Klahoose and Homalco peoples, having shared adjoining territories. The three, along with K'omoks, were grouped collectively as the Mainland Comox due to their shared language. The Sliammon speak ʔayajuθəm, which is also referred to by some as "Mainland Comox dialect". The Tla'amin Language was passed down generationally without a need for a writing system. It falls under the Central Salish branch of Coast Salish Languages, and is part of Comox or Éyɂáɂjuuthem, historically spoken in the east coast of Vancouver Island and the northern Sunshine Coast and adjoining inlets and islands. ʔayajuθəm was traditionally spoken in Bute Inlet (Church House), in Squirrel Cove (Cortez Island), and in Sliammon (Powell River). The Comox group of the Central Salish branch consists of 2 dialects: Island Comox, associated with the K'ómoks First Nation, and Mainland Comox. As of 2012, the Island Comox dialect has no remaining speakers. There is currently no single word used to differentiate or label the Tla'amin Language however most agree that "Comox" as applied by researchers is not an adequate label.
Forms part of the Jacobs Research Fund Collection
Maintained original organization.
Audio recordings and notes from researchers Daniel Reisinger & Roger Lo with consultants: Elsie Paul, Freddie Louie, Margaret Vivier, Jerry Francis, Joanne Francis, Karen Galligos, William Francis, Maggie Wilson, Marion Harry, Bill Blaney, and Hermann Francis.
Maintained original organization.
Audio recordings from researcher Gloria Mellsemoen. Consultants indicated in item name by initials.
Includes audio files with Marion Harry, Margaret Vivier, and William Francis.
Includes audio files with Karen Galligos and Freddie Louie.
Includes audio files with Elsie Paul, Freddie Louie, Karen Galligos, and Phyllis Dominic.
Includes audio files with Freddie Louie and Karen Galligos.
Includes audio files with Jerry Francis or Joanne Francis, Karen Galligos, and Phyllis Dominic.
Includes audio files with Elsie Paul, Marion Harry, Freddie Louie, Maggie Wilson, Karen Galligos, and Margaret Vivier.
Includes audio files with Jerry Francis or Joanne Francis, Karen Galligos, and Elsie Paul.
Includes audio files with Jerry Francis or Joanne Francis .
Maintained original organization.
Audio recordings and notes from researcher Kianing Xu.
Includes audio files and notes with Phyllis Dominic.
Includes audio files and notes with Phyllis Dominic.
Includes audio files with William Gerry Francis and Margaret Vivier.
Includes audio files and notes with Phyllis Dominic, William Gerry Francis, Margaret Vivier, Marion Harry, and Joanne Francis.
Includes audio files and notes with Phyllis Dominic, Joanne Francis, and Karen Galligos.
Maintained original organization.
Audio recordings and notes from researcher Bruno Andreotti. Consultants indicated in item name by first name.
Includes audio files with Elsie Paul, Freddie Louie, Karen Galligos, and Maggie Wilson.
Includes audio files with Karen Galligos, Margaret Vivier, and Jerry Francis.
Includes audio files and notes with Joanne Francis, and Phyllis Dominic.