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Eastern Ojibwa - Grammatical Sketch, Texts and Word List (Paperback)
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Eastern Ojibwa - Grammatical Sketch, Texts and Word List (Paperback)
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In this study of Eastern Ojibwa, the late Leonard Bloomfield, first
and greatest of structural linguists, presents his only extended
treatment of the Central Algonquin syntax. A dialect of the Central
Algonquin tongue, Ojibwa is spoken by the American Indians in the
area of Lakes Superior, Huron, and Michigan; in Minnesota,
Wisconsin, and Michigan, and in Ontario, Manitoba, and
Saskatchewan. The texts, transcribed as dictated by an informant
and phonetically rendered by Bernard Bloch, include an Indian's
childhood memories: Grandmother, The White Man, Falling in the
Water, Spring Thunderstorm; as well as Indian Folklore: The
Sweating Cure, Fasting, Burial Rites, Love Medicine. Working with
this unique collection of texts, which includes in several
instances two or three versions of the same story, Bloomfield
solves the two great phonetic difficulties of Ojibwa: distinction
of lenis and fortis consonants, and the distinction of long and
short vowels.
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