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Linguistics retention and diffusion in Bella Coola

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Stanley Newman
Stanley Newman
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Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
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Abstract

The ecological vocabulary of the Bella Coola, who speak a Salish language of the American Northwest Coast, shows a larger proportion of loanwords than of forms retained from the parent language. Over a period of centuries the Bella Coola were in contact with many non-Salish tribes, but the direction of their borrowing was highly selective. Although their most intimate contacts were with speakers of Athapaskan and Wakashan, the overwhelming proportion of their ecological loans are Wakashan. This selectivity is explained by cultural affinity rather than intimacy of contact. (Language and cultural history, sociolinguistics, lexical borrowing, ecological vocabulary, Northwest Coast, Bella Coola Indians.)

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Articles: Areal Contexts of Change
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Language in Society , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , October 1974, pp. 201 - 214
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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