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University of British Columbia Salish Working Group Éyɂáɂjuuthem (Comox-Sliammon) linguistic research, 2017-2018

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Davis, Henry Thomas
Title
University of British Columbia Salish Working Group Éyɂáɂjuuthem (Comox-Sliammon) linguistic research
Dates
2017-2018 (inclusive)
Quantity
39.4 gigabytes, (201 files, one usb drive)
Collection Number
2696-205
Summary
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)
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

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.

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

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.

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Content Description

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.

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Historical Note

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.

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Other Descriptive Information

Forms part of the Jacobs Research Fund Collection

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Donated by Dr. Henry Davis, 2018.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Series 1, Daniel Reisinger & Roger Lo, 2017-2018

    Other Descriptive Information

    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.

  • Series 2, Gloria Mellsemoen, 2017-2018

    Other Descriptive Information

    Maintained original organization.

    Audio recordings from researcher Gloria Mellsemoen. Consultants indicated in item name by initials.

    • Description: Adjectives

      Includes audio files with Marion Harry, Margaret Vivier, and William Francis.

      Dates: 2018 February
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 2_1
      Location: Series 2, Gloria Mellsemoen, 2017-2018
    • Description: Diminutives

      Includes audio files with Karen Galligos and Freddie Louie.

      Dates: 2017 June
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 2_2
      Location: Series 2, Gloria Mellsemoen, 2017-2018
    • Description: Fricatives

      Includes audio files with Elsie Paul, Freddie Louie, Karen Galligos, and Phyllis Dominic.

      Dates: 2017 July
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 2_3
      Location: Series 2, Gloria Mellsemoen, 2017-2018
    • Description: Glottalized Resonants

      Includes audio files with Freddie Louie and Karen Galligos.

      Dates: 2017 July
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 2_4
      Location: Series 2, Gloria Mellsemoen, 2017-2018
    • Description: NonControlStative

      Includes audio files with Jerry Francis or Joanne Francis, Karen Galligos, and Phyllis Dominic.

      Dates: 2017 June
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 2_5
      Location: Series 2, Gloria Mellsemoen, 2017-2018
    • Description: Plurals

      Includes audio files with Elsie Paul, Marion Harry, Freddie Louie, Maggie Wilson, Karen Galligos, and Margaret Vivier.

      Dates: 2017
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 2_6
      Location: Series 2, Gloria Mellsemoen, 2017-2018
    • Description: -sh transitivizer

      Includes audio files with Jerry Francis or Joanne Francis, Karen Galligos, and Elsie Paul.

      Dates: 2017 June
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 2_7
      Location: Series 2, Gloria Mellsemoen, 2017-2018
    • Description: vot

      Includes audio files with Jerry Francis or Joanne Francis .

      Dates: 2017 June
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 2_8
      Location: Series 2, Gloria Mellsemoen, 2017-2018

  • Series 3, Kaining Xu, 2017-2018

    Other Descriptive Information

    Maintained original organization.

    Audio recordings and notes from researcher Kianing Xu.

    • Description: Cleft

      Includes audio files and notes with Phyllis Dominic.

      Dates: 2017 June
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 3_1
      Location: Series 3, Kaining Xu, 2017-2018
    • Description: Determiner

      Includes audio files and notes with Phyllis Dominic.

      Dates: 2017 September
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 3_2
      Location: Series 3, Kaining Xu, 2017-2018
    • Description: Future Tense Marker

      Includes audio files with William Gerry Francis and Margaret Vivier.

      Dates: 2018 February
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 3_3
      Location: Series 3, Kaining Xu, 2017-2018
    • Description: Relative Clause

      Includes audio files and notes with Phyllis Dominic, William Gerry Francis, Margaret Vivier, Marion Harry, and Joanne Francis.

      Dates: 2017-2018
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 3_4
      Location: Series 3, Kaining Xu, 2017-2018
    • Description: Tense

      Includes audio files and notes with Phyllis Dominic, Joanne Francis, and Karen Galligos.

      Dates: 2017-2018
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 3_5
      Location: Series 3, Kaining Xu, 2017-2018
    • Description: Information
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 3_6
      Location: Series 3, Kaining Xu, 2017-2018

  • Series 4, Bruno Andreotti

    Other Descriptive Information

    Maintained original organization.

    Audio recordings and notes from researcher Bruno Andreotti. Consultants indicated in item name by first name.

    • Description: Sliammon elicitation

      Includes audio files with Elsie Paul, Freddie Louie, Karen Galligos, and Maggie Wilson.

      Dates: 2017 November
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 4_1
      Location: Series 4, Bruno Andreotti
    • Description: Sliammon elicitation

      Includes audio files with Karen Galligos, Margaret Vivier, and Jerry Francis.

      Dates: 2018 February
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 4_2
      Location: Series 4, Bruno Andreotti
    • Description: Relative Clauses

      Includes audio files and notes with Joanne Francis, and Phyllis Dominic.

      Dates: 2018 March 10
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 4_3
      Location: Series 4, Bruno Andreotti
    • Description: Statives
      Dates: 2018 March
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 4_4
      Location: Series 4, Bruno Andreotti
    • Description: Spontaneously Produced Additional Sentences
      Dates: 2018 February
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 4_5
      Location: Series 4, Bruno Andreotti

  • Series 5, Physical materials

    • Description: Linguistic Research USB
      Container: Electronic file 2696-205-01 electronic file, Item 5_1
      Location: Series 5, Physical materials


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