Title: Clear account of difficult language
Product review: This is a careful and detailed but admirably clear and readable account of Halkomelem. Prof Suttles succeeds in his stated objective of providing a reference grammar accessible to interested non-linguists (like me). He steers clear (for example) of the more question-begging sort of presentation of Salishan languages which denies the verb/noun distinction, but provides all the relevant information bearing on the point; the grammar is accessible but in no sense linguistically naive. Prof Suttles' anthropological background is evident in the quite copious and interesting appendices too.The index is a bit patchy. No entry, for example, under "control", although this is treated (of course) in the text.Glad I bought it!
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