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That one holds in Menominee too - it seems to have something to do with size (large boards are animate but smaller ones are inanimate, according to Bloomfield).
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<div class="">On Dec 10, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Guillaume Jacques <<a href="mailto:rgyalrongskad@gmail.com" class="">rgyalrongskad@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">In Ojibwe, mitig means "tree" when animate (pl mitigoog), and "stick" when inanimate (pl mitigoon), which looks in some way similar to the "apple" case you mention (becoming inanimate when removed from the place where it grew). This
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Recently I’ve heard Menominee learners saying that “apple” is animate while it’s attached to the tree, but inanimate when it falls on the ground. Bloomfield does talk about how inanimate nouns can be treated as animate in, for example, stories where some object
takes on magical qualities, but I don’t think he talks about this kind of switch (although I could just be missing it!). Do you find this in other Algonquian languages? Or do you think this is an innovation by the learners? I’ve heard it from a lot of people
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