Functional Changes in the Salish Pronominal System

1I am grateful to the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, which provided me with a grant-in-aid. I also wish to thank M. Dale Kinkade for offering helpful comments on an earlier version of this study. 2 "The Salish Independent Pronoun System", IJAL 43 (1977): 302-14 (henceforth SIPS); "A History of the Salish Possessive and Subject Forms," IJAL 45 (1979): 207-23 (henceforth HSPSF); "The Salish Object Forms," IJAL 45 (1979): 299-308 (henceforth SOF). The present paper is cited as FCSPS.