Abstract
The very complex system of stress-assignment in Moses-Columbia Salish (Nxa'amxcin), an Interior Salish language that has not yet been discussed in the generative literature, is accounted for in a simple and principled manner within the Halle and Vergnaud (1987a, b) metrical framework by assuming that two rules of stress assignment interact with morphological properties ofcyclicity, accent, andextrametricality. The basic properties of the system are typologically similar to those found in Indo-European languages such as Sanskrit and Russian. Moses-Columbian distinguishes primarily two classes of suffixes: dominant suffixes which trigger cyclic stress assignment and recessive suffixes which are assigned stress by a noncyclic application of a stress rule. Which class a suffix belongs to cannot be predicted from its morphological category nor from its position in a word. Moses-Columbian thus provides support for the hypothesis that cyclicity is a diacritic property which must be specified for each affix.
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