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A remote analogy: Mary Black recorded SW Oiibwe <i>giigoonh</i> as
anim 'fish' and inan 'dead fish.' I never found parallel [+/-<br>
living] pairs in Woods Cree. <br>
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<div dir="ltr">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 pair
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MACAULAY <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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 and have been
wondering about it for a while.<br>
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thanks!<br>
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- Monica<br>
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