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By J. Randolph Valentine

ISBN-10: 0802083897

ISBN-13: 9780802083890

This descriptive reference grammar of Nishnaabemwin (Odawa and jap Ojibwe), an important dialect workforce inside modern Ojibwe spoken within the neighborhood of Lake Huron in Southern Ontario, represents the main finished works on an Algonquin language released thus far. It contains vast descriptive therapy of phonology, orthography, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, and significant structural and sensible syntactic different types. issues of grammar are copiously illustrated with instance sentences listed with thorough grammatical annotations. an intensive thesaurus of normal Algonquian linguistic phrases is additionally provided.Written for either the start linguist in addition to the coed of Algonquian languages, this grammar offers uncomplicated causes of linguistic phrases in addition to an intensive and complete research of the language. Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar represents an immense contribution to linguistics in most cases and to Algonquian language research specifically.

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