Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar

by J. Randolph Valentine

This descriptive reference grammar of Nishnaabemwin (Odawa and Eastern Ojibwe), a major dialect group within contemporary Ojibwe spoken in the vicinity of Lake Huron in Southern Ontario, represents the most comprehensive works on an Algonquin language published to date. It includes extensive descriptive treatment of phonology, orthography, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, and major structural and functional syntactic categories. Points of grammar are copiously illustrated with example sentences indexed with thorough grammatical annotations. An extensive glossary of standard Algonquian linguistic terms is also provided. Written for both the beginning linguist as well as the scholar of Algonquian languages, this grammar provides simple explanations of linguistic terms as well as a thorough and comprehensive study of the language. Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar represents a major contribution to linguistics in general and to Algonquian language study in particular.

992 pages, Paperback

First published December 8, 2001

Reviews

[Pippen Sands · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chi-Miigwech for the creation of this great text. From Bkejwanong

[Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is so incredibly detailed that I haven't gotten all the way through it (it's over 1100 pages long). However, it without a doubt tells you everything you need to know about the Odawa-Nishnaabe language and its closely related sister languages like Potawatomi and Oji-Cree. It's an absolutely indispensable resource for language revitalization.