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Lushootseed Dictionary
Bates, Dawn; Hess, Thom; Hilbert, Vi
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Description for Lushootseed Dictionary
Paperback. A celebration of western Washington Native language and culture, this book is a completely reformatted and greatly revised and expanded update of Thom Hess's Dictionary of Puget Salish (1976). Num Pages: 396 pages, 1M. BIC Classification: 2J; CBD; CF; YRDL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 179 x 30. Weight in Grams: 772.
A celebration of western Washington Native language and culture, this book is a completely reformatted and greatly revised and expanded update of Thom Hesss Dictionary of Puget Salish (1976). Editor Dawn Bates integrates the field notes of Vi Hilbert, UpperSkagit elder and native speaker of Lushootseed, with Hesss analyses, mining information gathered by Hilbert and Hess from Skagit, Tulalip, Muckleshoot, Swinomish, Puyallup, and other Native consultants over a period of thirty years. The dictionary includes numerous example sentences taken from Lushootseeds rich tradition of storytelling. The introduction to the Lushootseed-English section catalogs Lushootseed word-building structures, and entries exemplify each prefix, ... Read more
A celebration of western Washington Native language and culture, this book is a completely reformatted and greatly revised and expanded update of Thom Hesss Dictionary of Puget Salish (1976). Editor Dawn Bates integrates the field notes of Vi Hilbert, UpperSkagit elder and native speaker of Lushootseed, with Hesss analyses, mining information gathered by Hilbert and Hess from Skagit, Tulalip, Muckleshoot, Swinomish, Puyallup, and other Native consultants over a period of thirty years. The dictionary includes numerous example sentences taken from Lushootseeds rich tradition of storytelling. The introduction to the Lushootseed-English section catalogs Lushootseed word-building structures, and entries exemplify each prefix, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
Number of Pages
404
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295973234
SKU
V9780295973234
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99-50
About Bates, Dawn; Hess, Thom; Hilbert, Vi
Thom Hess was a professor of linguistics at the University of Victoria.
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