Author: Mulder, Jean Gail
Title: Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax)
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1994). orig.wrappers. 25x17cm, xii, 259 pp. Series: University of California Publications in Linguistics. Volume 124.. Textual diagrams & maps. Rubbed. Small chip to spine. Cover creased. Good. ¶ Contents: Introduction; The Language and Its Speakers; The Tsimshianic Language Family; Recent History of the Coast Tsimshian; Linguistic Material on Coast Tsimshian; An Overview of the Phonology; Orthographic Considerations; Morphological Ergativity; Introduction; Connectives; Personal Pronouns; Person Agreement; Number Agreement; Tense and Aspect of the Clause; Mood of the Clause; Verb Formation Processes; Summary; Syntactic Ergativity; Introduction; Imperatives; Jussive Complements; ' Want' and Similar Verbs; Causatives; Reflexives; Coordination; Subordination; Topicalization; Relativization; The Lack of a Passive and an Antipassive; Summary; A Cross-Linguistic Perspective; Introduction; Morphological Ergativity; Syntactic Ergativity; Legends; Introduction; The legend of Porcupine and Beaver; The Legend of Porcupine and Grizzly Bear; The Legend of Little Pitch.

Keywords: Penutian Linguistics, Tsimshian Language, Amerind Languages, Ergativity, Ergative, Constructions, Linguistic, ,