<div dir="ltr">Dia dhuit, a chara!<div><br></div><div>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.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>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!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Till later, keep safe and sane.</div><div><br></div><div>Slán,</div><div>do chara</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Sarah Lundquist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sjlundquist@wisc.edu" target="_blank">sjlundquist@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 dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hi all,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">PA *i & *ii split into Menominee i, ii and e, ee<br>
PA *o & *oo split into Menominee u, uu and o, oo<br>
PA *e split into M e and ae (what he writes with epsilon ɛ)<br>
PA *ee became M long ae (a͞e, or ɛɛ)<br>
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PA *i and *e merged to i in Cree</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> C M<br>
-ee -a͞e<br>
-o -o<br>
-aw -aw<br>
-isi -isi/-ese/-aese (varies in Menominee)<br>
-isii -isii/-esii/ -aesii (ditto)<br>
-in -in/-en (ditto)<br>
-i -i/-e (ditto)<br>
-ii -ii/-ee (ditto)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sarah <img src="http://cdn.mailscanner.info/1x1spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" alt="Web Bug from file:///C:\Users\WILLPA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><font size="3"></font></font></span></span></p>
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<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Sarah Lundquist</b> │Project Assistant, UW-Madison Dept. of Linguistics<br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Linguistics Student Organization Co-President<br>
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