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Saanich

Language
Saanich

Family
Salish

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Saanich notes

Besides inflecting for aspect, verbs take subject clitics and, if transitive, object suffixes. Objects suffixes in turn fall into two classes depending on whether they have the 'control transtive' suffix -ət or some other transitivizing suffix. This is not represented in the database, but details can be found in Montler (1986).


References

Turner, Claire. 2011. Representing events in Saanich (Northern Straits Salish): the interaction of aspect and valence. PhD thesis, University of Surrey.

Montler, Timothy. 1986. An Outline of the Morphology and Phonology of Saanich, North Straits Salish (Occasional Papers in Linguistics No. 4). Missoula: University of Montana Linguistics Laboratory. Online: http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Saanich/Outline/.