{Disarmed} Menominee/Cree vowel correspondence

[Conor Quinn]

Dia dhuit, a chara!

To track the history of these Finals, it may be helpful to look at the
well-documented Eastern Algonquian languages, rather than the Central ones,
because in most of the relevant cases, short PA *e and PA *i are kept
pretty solidly apart.  (For languages like Ojibwe, they still are in a
morphophonemic sense (e.g. -in that palatalizes vs. -in that doesn't), but
those analyses are always tricky creatures, whereas for the first stages of
reconstruction it's much simpler when dealing with an Eastern language like
Passamaquoddy-Maliseet where one is -in and the other is -ən.)

Even if the target is ultimately just a Cree vs. Menominee correspondence,
this kind of outside perspective can be helpful.  (Especially in the cases
where these vowels have reshaped not by sound law, but by morphological
leveling/analogy, which is also not altogether rare.)  And I'll be happy to
help set you up with (and chat about) Eastern-area cognates to Finals with
these abstract Finals---there are plenty!

Till later, keep safe and sane.

Slán,
do chara



On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Sarah Lundquist <sjlundquist at wisc.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> My advisor Monica Macaulay and I are attempting to ascertain
> correspondence for a set of vowels in Cree and Menominee.  In his "sketch,”
> Bloomfield (1946) states that:
>
> PA *i & *ii split into Menominee i, ii and e, ee
> PA *o & *oo split into Menominee u, uu and o, oo
> PA *e split into M e and ae (what he writes with epsilon ɛ)
> PA *ee became M long ae (a͞e, or ɛɛ)
>
> PA *i and *e merged to i in Cree
>
>
>
> I am working on a paper which relies upon a comparison of Cree and
> Menominee AI finals.  Monica and I believe that following the information
> above, the Cree/Menominee cognates for the finals should be as follows:
>
>  C       M
> -ee     -a͞e
> -o       -o
> -aw     -aw
> -isi      -isi/-ese/-aese (varies in Menominee)
> -isii     -isii/-esii/ -aesii (ditto)
> -in       -in/-en (ditto)
> -i         -i/-e (ditto)
> -ii        -ii/-ee (ditto)
>
>
>
> However, my knowledge of PA and phonological patterns across Algonquian
> languages is very limited, and Monica has suggested that I check with
> someone with more knowledge of the history of the languages than she has.
> In general, the meanings of these finals do seem to correspond, but one of
> the things that I’m looking at with them is the ways in which they *don’t*
> correspond; so we can’t really use the meanings as a way to decide the
> matter.  Would anyone be willing to lend us a hand in verifying that these
> morphemes are cognate?  Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Sarah [image: Web Bug from
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>
>
> --
> *Sarah Lundquist* │Project Assistant, UW-Madison Dept. of Linguistics
> Linguistics Student Organization Co-President
> TLAM Student Organization Outreach Coordinator
> sjlundquist at wisc.edu
>
>


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