Henry Davis

BC Indigenous Languages in Transition: Grammatical Change and Adaptation

Principal investigators: Davis, Henry

Developing Accessible Grammars for BC First Nations Languages

Principal investigators: Davis, Henry T.

Keywords: First Nations languages of British Columbia; Salish; Tsimshianic; grammar; syntax; semantics; morphology; language documentation; language pedagogy

Developing Accessible Grammars for BC First Nations Languages

Principal investigators: Davis, Henry T.

Keywords: First Nations languages of British Columbia; Salish; Tsimshianic; grammar; syntax; semantics; morphology; language documentation; language pedagogy

The nature of parameters: representing language universals and language variation

Principal investigators: Travis, Lisa D.

Keywords: syntactic theory; universal grammar; language variation; parameters; language change: ergativity; austronesian; Mayan; Inuit; Salish; Wakashan; Tsimshianic

Enhancing lexical resources for BC First Nations languages

Principal investigators: Davis, Henry T.

Keywords: First Nations languages; British Columbia; Salish; Wakashan; Tsimshianic; on-line dictionaries; endangered languages; lexicon; community resources; morphology; productivity; argument structure; derivation; orthography

First Nations languages in the twenty-first century: looking back, looking forward

Keywords: First Nations language revitalization; First Nations language documentation; youth; indigenous knowledge

The representation of focus in languages of the Pacific Northwest

Principal investigators: Davis, Henry T.

Keywords: focus; syntax; prosody; discourse; First Nations languages; British Columbia; Salish; Wakashan

The Wakashan Linguistics Conference

Principal investigators: Davis, Henry T.

Keywords: linguistics; Wakashan; First Nations languages; phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax; language preservation

Preserving what we can: consolidating textual resources for St'át'imcets (Lillooet Salish)

Principal investigators: Davis, Henry T.

Keywords: first nations languages; Salish; syntax; discourse; fieldwork; language preservation; texts; archiving

Exploring the consequences of cross-linguistic variation in the semantics: tense and aspect in Salish and Wakashan

Principal investigators: Matthewson, Lisa C.

Keywords: semantics; syntax-semantics interface; pragmatics; tense; aspect; aktionsart; cross-linguistic variation; Salish; wakashan; first nations languages; fieldwork