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THE NATURE OF THIS WORK This corpus contains a variety of information about Salasaka Kichwa, the Salasakas, their love and aspirations for their culture, history, and language.  The contents reveal details about various individuals’ lives, thus, although all native participants have granted us permission to post their stories, recordings, etc., it is of utmost importance to use discretion when … [Read more...]

An Introduction to Salasaka Kichwa Morphology

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Salasaka Kichwa is an SOV language, meaning that the word order of any sentence will be 'subject, object, verb'.  It is an agglutinative language, which means that, rather than using many independent words to convey meaning and build sentences, suffixes are added to a root that change the meaning or part of speech of a root (derivational), or express a grammatical function (inflectional). Some … [Read more...]

Syntax: Subordinate Clauses

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There are two types of subordinate or dependent clauses discussed in this brief tutorial: those headed by an adverbial subordinate conjunction and those headed by a relative pronoun (adjectival subordinate conjunction).  Adverbial subordinate clauses modify, or give information about the verb in the main clause.  Adjectival subordinate clauses modify a noun in the main clause. Subordinate … [Read more...]

Morphological Typology

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Morphological Typology Languages can be classified into groups based on a number of different linguistic criteria. One such way to categorize languages is by the type and extent of morphology that they use. For example, some languages string many morphemes together while others languages tend to realize most words as independent or mono-morphemic segments. The latter type of language is … [Read more...]

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