On verbal number in Upriver Halkomelem*

In this paper, my primary objective is to present a formal semantic analysis of pluractionality, or plurality in the verbal domain, in Upriver Halkomelem (Coast Salish, BC; UH henceforth). Unlike most of the better-studied Indo-European languages, UH exhibits a robust pattern of plural marking on verbs. Galloway (1993: 323) identifies a range of interpretations that are associated with plural morphology in the verbal domain, claiming that it can represent plural ‘actions’, ‘subjects’, or ‘objects’ in the case of a transitive verb. The example in (1) demonstrates this flexibility, with a single sentence that can be used to describe all of the situations in a-e.