Papers of the forty-third Algonquian Conference held at University of Michigan in October 2011.
The papers of the Algonquian Conference have long served as the primary source of peer-reviewed scholarship addressing topics related to the languages and societies of Algonquian peoples. Contributions, which are peer-reviewed submissions presented at the annual conference, represent an assortment of humanities and social science disciplines, including archeology, cultural anthropology, history, ethnohistory, linguistics, literary studies, Native studies, social work, film, and countless others. Both theoretical and descriptive approaches are welcomed, and submissions often provide previously unpublished data from historical and contemporary sources, or novel theoretical insights based on firsthand research. The research is commonly interdisciplinary in scope and the papers are filled with contributions presenting fresh research from a broad array of researchers and writers. These papers are essential reading for those interested in Algonquian world views, cultures, history, and languages. They build bridges among a large international group of people who write in different disciplines. Scholars in linguistics, anthropology, history, education, and other fields are brought together in one vital community, thanks to these publications.
Monica Macaulay is Professor of Linguistics and affiliated faculty with the American Indian Studies program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her books include Menominee Dictionary. J. Randolph Valentine is Professor of Linguistics and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar.
Table of Contents
Preface George F. Aubin Two Mathevet Manuscripts in ASSM #43
Amy Dahlstrom Meskwaki Comparatives: A First Look
Rose-Marie Déchaine, Toni M. Cardinal, David Johnson, and Anne-Marie Kidd Plains Cree Personal Pronouns
Lynn Drapeau A Generalized Applicative in Innu
Ives Goddard The Twenty-nine Enclitics of Meskwaki
Meredith Johnson AI+O Verbs: A Distributed Morphology Analysis
Meredith Johnson and Bryan Rosen The Syntax of Discontinuous Noun Phrases in Algonquian Languages: Left Branch Extractions and Focus Movements
Meredith Johnson, Monica Macaulay, Bryan Rosen, and Rachel Wang A Survey of Menominee Word Order
John S. Long Treaty No. 9: D. C. Scott’s Accidental Gift
Richard A. Rhodes Instrumentality and Frames in Ojibwe
Olivia N. Sammons and Wesley Y. Leonard Breathing New Life into Algonquian Languages: Lessons from the Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages
Michael Sullivan Ojibwe Drum Music: Structure and Language
Jimena Terraza Person Hierarchies in Eastern Ojibwe (Nishnaabemwin)
Martina Wiltschko, Valerie Marshall, Andy Matheson, and Audra Vincent Independent Pronouns in Blackfoot