Levels of analysis in the Lillooet Salish pronominal system

This paper addresses some interesting questions which arise in the analysis of the St'at'imcets (Lillooet) pronominal system. Lillooet is a member of the Northern Interior branch of the Salish family, spoken by about 400 people in S. W. British Columbia. Like the other members of its family, it is a "radical headmarking" language (Jelinek 1984, Baker 1991, ) distinguished by an elaborate system of pronominal suffixes and clitics, which generally replace full NP arguments. While the basic design of the pronominal system is the same in all Salish languages, there is also substantial morpho-phonological and morphosyntactic variation between languages (see Newman 1979, Hoard 1971). We will be dealing here almost exclusively with Lillooet; a full parametric account awaits future work