Re: a crying-out for resources

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, B Elliott Walker wrote:

> i was wondering if anyone on this minty-minty list knew of any good books
> detailing the syntax & or morphology of Ojibwe, or any other algonquian
> language besides Cree. I'v managed to find a few works on Cree (mostly
> notable are those by Ahenakew and Wolfart) and a grammar of Blackfoot, but
> i'm not getting any love in my search for languages such as anishaabeg,
> kickapoo, or menomini, let alone montagnais, naskapi or innu.
Leonard Bloomfield wrote an extensive grammar of Menomini which a
reasonably large university library should have (the University of Utah
library has three). There is also a volume in the Viking Fund
Publications in Anthropology which contains a shorter sketch of
comparative Algonkian by Bloomfield. (I think the volume title is
_Linguistic Structures of Native America_.) It also has two (count 'em,
two!) sketches by Benjamin Whorf of (1) Hopi and (2) Milpa Alta Nahuatl.
And several other nifty sketches. In 1948, Charles Hockett published a
grammatical sketch of Potawatomi in the _International Journal of
American Linguistics_ (it appears in bits through all four issues that
year). Again, a reasonable well-equipped university library should be
expected to have a run of IJAL at least back to 1948. There is also
Richard Rhodes' 1976 University of Michigan dissertation _The
morphosyntax of the central Ojibwa verb_.

I can't think of anything else; maybe Brad has some other suggestions.

Dirk

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Dirk Elzinga
dirk.elzinga@m.cc.utah.edu