Pejorative vs. Diminutive

[Wayne Newell]

 Check with Robert Leavitt or better still linguist Philip LeSord (just
google them) for Maliseet and Passamaquoddy. We have recently published an
18000 item dictionary. It's on the web but I don't have the link close by.
Robert can give it to you. Hope this helps.

Wayne Newell
Passamaquoddy Tribe



On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Monica Macaulay <mmacaula at wisc.edu> wrote:

> Yup, Potawatomi has both.  But Menominee has diminutive only.
>
> On May 7, 2013, at 6:29 PM, David Costa <pankihtamwa at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> All I can contribute to this is that while Miami-Illinois and Shawnee of
> course have diminutives, there is no pejorative in either language.
> Apparently, however, Potawatomi has both. (See Charles Hockett, 1948, *Potawatomi
> II: Derivation, Personal Prefixes, and Nouns*. IJAL 14, especially pages
> 70-1.)
>
> Dave Costa
>
>
> Greetings.  I'm working on a paper concerning diminutives and pejoratives
> - and in particular comparing Plains Cree (which lacks a distinct
> pejorative) and Saulteaux (which has one).  This has me wondering about the
> distribution of these forms across the Algonquian family.  I'm hoping some
> of you can comment on the distribution of diminutives versus pejoratives in
> as many Algonquian languages as possible.  In particular, how widespread
> are diminutive and pejorative forms?  Is the pejorative restricted just to
> Ojibwe or do other language have distinct pejoratives?  Thank you for any
> information you can share.
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