The Kalapuyan languages are a small family of Native American languages that were spoken in the Willamette Valley (Oregon). Internally, the family can be divided into three branches, Northern, Central and Southern Kalapuan. The Kalapuyan family is generally included in the disputed Penutian macrogroup. The closest relative of the Kalapuyan languages seems to be Takelma, based on evidence from shared lexicon and bound morphemes.
The main source on Kalapuyan languages is the large corpus of text collections published in 1945 by Melville Jacobs . The bulk of the texts is from Central Kalapuyan: Santiam texts were collected by Jacobs himself, whereas material from the P̓īnefu (= Mary's River) and Lower McKenzie dialects were originally collected by Leo Frachtenberg in the 1910s. A first analysis of the grammar of Santiam Kalapuya was undertaken by Jonathan Banks in 2007, concentrating on the verbal morphology of Santiam.
Based on my own inspection of the data collected by Jacobs, I have come to some results which partly differ from Banks' analysis of the data. In the first part, I want to deal with the prefixes of Central Kalapuya. Click here for the full paper in progress:
http://ezlinguistics.blogspot.de/p/kalapuya-verb-prefixes.html.
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