North Wakashan Comparative Root List
By: Neville J. Lincoln, John C. Rath.
Contributors: Evelyn Windsor et al.
Series: Mercury series / National Museum of Man,; Collection mercure / Musée national de l'homme,; Paper / Canadian Ethnology Service,; no. 68 =; Dossier / Le Service canadien d'ethnologie,; no. 68; Mercury series.; Paper (Canadian Ethnology Service) ;; no. 68.
Publisher: National Museums of Canada
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Wakashan languages -- Roots.
First sentence: Largely due to the lack of large bodies of reliable materials, little progress has been made so far in working out the precise interrelationships and sub-groupings of the Wakashan family.
Description: Outline of the phoneme systems of the four surviving variants of North Wakashan (Heiltsuk, Oowekyala, Haisla and Kwakwala) followed by a discussion of the method for identifying roots and the root list itself which comprises 2648 items. This work contains relatively few Haisla roots and researchers should consult it in conjunction with the Haisla root list at the end of volume 2 of Lincoln & Rath's "Phonology, Dictionary and Listing of Roots and Lexical Derivates of the Haisla Language of Kitlope and Kitimaat, BC" (paper no. 103 in the same Mercury Series).
Notes: Bibliography: p. 412.
Summary in French.