H.F. Nater - The Bella Coola Language. Anyone interested?

[Noriega]

I stumbled upon H.F. Nater's The Bella Coola Language from 1984. Is anyone interested in having it?

I could send it by mail and you pay the shipping, but maybe, in these modern times, I should scan it?
(I'll have to check if our office scanner has "feed scanning", because I'm not scanning 150 pages by hand.)

[Xephyr]

Just 150 pages? Shiiiit, I'll scan that mofo. Send it to me, I'll scan it and upload the PDF for all the world to share.

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[Aurora Rossa]

Indeed, I have always wanted to read a grammar of Bella Coola (or Nuxálk as I believe they prefer to call it now).

[Vuvuzela]

Nuxalkmc is definately an interesting language. Once you scan it, I'd definitely like to see that grammar thing.

[ayyub]

Just 150 pages? Shiiiit, I'll scan that mofo. Send it to me, I'll scan it and upload the PDF for all the world to share.

Sending it to Xeph gets my vote. I mean, I'd like it too, but I'm far too lazy to scan it.

[Noriega]

Just 150 pages? Shiiiit, I'll scan that mofo. Send it to me, I'll scan it and upload the PDF for all the world to share.

Shiiiiiet, if you truly be willin' to do that, I think I done figured a way to send it to you fo' free. Check yo' PMs!

Nuxálk as I believe they prefer to call it now.

So it seems. Quote from the book:
"The name "Bella Coola" is itself a corruption of the Heiltsuk word bḷ́xʷlá somebody from Bella Coola."

[Xephyr]

Just 150 pages? Shiiiit, I'll scan that mofo. Send it to me, I'll scan it and upload the PDF for all the world to share.

Shiiiiiet, if you truly be willin' to do that, I think I done figured a way to send it to you fo' free. Check yo' PMs!

Fo shizzle.

[Bristel]

I'm definitely interested in a PDF copy. Let us know how the scanning goes.

[Wattmann]

This could not have come at a better time :O
What better way to expand a polysynthetic language than by reading up on other polysynthetic languages!

[Xephyr]

Here ya go

http://www.mediafire.com/?awld94zwibsr63s

(I used black magic to reduce the file size. If anyone has problems with it, the original huge-ass file is here.)

[Kereb]

THANK YOU XEPHYR
I AM GOING TO LEARN ALL THE NUXALKS NOW

[Noriega]

Nice, I was getting worried you hadn't gotten it yet. Thanks Xephyr!

[Wattmann]

Wonderful!

[Xephyr]

Nice, I was getting worried you hadn't gotten it yet. Thanks Xephyr!

And I was getting worried that nobody even noticed/cared I'd uploaded it... I did it, like, over a week ago.

[mechimapoi]

awesome! I'm currently working documenting the bella coola language, and hadn't been able to find a copy of this grammar, so finding it here was awesome.

[Morrígan]

Alternative Link: Nuxalk - The Bella Coola Language*

*Connection not guaranteed to be available overnight, Eastern Standard Time.

[Xephyr]

awesome! I'm currently working documenting the bella coola language, and hadn't been able to find a copy of this grammar, so finding it here was awesome.

"Documenting"? Could you elaborate?

[mechimapoi]

As in reviewing and categorizing all documentation and curriculum to date, then doing a few hundred hours more of recording, developing a scope and sequence for teaching the language, and overseeing the creation of new curriculum/training teachers.

[Morrígan]

As in reviewing and categorizing all documentation and curriculum to date, then doing a few hundred hours more of recording, developing a scope and sequence for teaching the language, and overseeing the creation of new curriculum/training teachers.

Pretty awesome.

[Qwynegold]

Huh, hadn't seen this until now. *grabs* Thanks, I'll take a look.

As in reviewing and categorizing all documentation and curriculum to date, then doing a few hundred hours more of recording, developing a scope and sequence for teaching the language, and overseeing the creation of new curriculum/training teachers.

oO

[Xephyr]

New recordings, eh? How many informants do you have and how, erm, old are they? I was kinda under the impression that Nuxalk was pretty much extinct by now...