In many languages, future time reference can be conveyed in more than one grammaticized
way. An example is English, which uses will and be going to. These two forms make different …

Most semantic fieldwork studies seem to make use of elicitation in the sense of Matthewson
(2004) at some point in the data collection process. It is therefore necessary to discuss and …

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles The form and function of interrogatives in Sm’algyax
A dissertation submitted in partial Page 1 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles The …

Languages of the Tsimshianic family, spoken in the Skeena and Nass River watershed
region in British Columbia, share a number of properties with other languages of the Pacific …

This paper explores temporal interpretations in clausal complements in Gitksan, a language
without temporal morphology. Bare predicates in Gitksan can receive present or past …

In this paper I test the predictions of previous analyses of Gitksan (Tsimshianic) modals on a
corpus of 36 Gitksan stories. See Reisinger et al.(2022) for a similar (but more in-depth) …