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A Sarcee Grammar
- E. Cook
- Linguistics
- 1984
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Is There Convergence in Language Death? Evidence from Chipewyan and Stoney
- E. Cook
- Linguistics
- 1 December 1995
There have been explicit claims and implicit assumptions that extensive and drastic structural reductions that occur in dying languages are due to convergence and confluence. This article argues that…
ATHAPASKAN CLASSIFICATORY VERBS
- Athapaskan Classificatory Verbs, E. Cook
- Linguistics
- 2005
0. The Athapaskan languages are well known for the complexity of verb morphology, particularly for the alternation of verb stem sets, each of which marks highly complicated grammatical and semantic…
Chilcotin flattening and autosegmental phonology
- E. Cook
- Linguistics
- 1 November 1993
Chilcotin Flattening
- E. Cook
- LinguisticsCanadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne…
- 1983
In Chilcotin, an Athapaskan language of northern British Columbia, surface alternations of vowels are determined by a process called “flattening” (Krauss 1975, Cook 1976a). So far, the process of…
Is phonology going haywire in dying languages? Phonological variations in Chipewyan and Sarcee
- E. Cook
- LinguisticsLanguage in Society
- 1 June 1989
ABSTRACT The two most conspicuous phenomena reported on dying languages are (a) structural (and stylistic) simplifications and (b) dramatic increases of variability due to incongruent and…
THE VERB «BE» IN SARCEE *
- E. Cook
- Linguistics
- 2005
1. It has been assumed, implicitly or explicitly, by many linguists and philosophers that every language has a verb (or two) which is equivalent to the English verb be in its meaning and grammatical…
Syllable Weight in Three Northern Athapaskan Languages
- E. Cook
- LinguisticsInternational Journal of American Linguistics
- 1 October 1977
0. The concept of syllable weight has been relatively well known among the students of Athapaskan linguistics, since the light/heavy syllable alternation in verb paradigms is a fairly common…
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