<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Is the ending -weku on Passamaquoddy "motewolinweku" a pejorative? <br><br>Ann Morrison Spinney</div><div><br>On May 7, 2013, at 10:15 PM, Wayne Newell <<a href="mailto:wnewellits@GMAIL.COM">wnewellits@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="display:inline" class="gmail_default"> 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.</div>
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</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Monica Macaulay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmacaula@wisc.edu" target="_blank">mmacaula@wisc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Yup, Potawatomi has both. But Menominee has diminutive only.<div><div class="h5"><div>
<br><div><div>On May 7, 2013, at 6:29 PM, David Costa <<a href="mailto:pankihtamwa@earthlink.net" target="_blank">pankihtamwa@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">
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, <i>Potawatomi II: Derivation, Personal Prefixes, and Nouns</i>. IJAL 14, especially pages 70-1.)<div>
<br></div><div><div>Dave Costa</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite">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.<br>
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