Pejorative vs. Diminutive

[Wayne Newell]

Aren't you glad I recommended Phil LaSord. We even woke up Bernie. Good to
hear from you Bernie.

Dr. Ken Hale once told me that if you are a speaker of the lanuage, than
you are the expert. My problem is that I didn't learn all of the linguistic
descriptive language. Maybe in the next world, I can again have the honor
of being Ken's student as were some of the respondents today. Have a good
day everyone and keep up the diologue, I'm understanding what you are
talking about but I still have not learned linguistic description. Apc oc
solakiw.


On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Ann Morrison Spinney <anuwit at comcast.net>wrote:

> Is the ending -weku on Passamaquoddy "motewolinweku" a pejorative?
>
> Ann Morrison Spinney
>
> On May 7, 2013, at 10:15 PM, Wayne Newell <wnewellits at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>  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.
>
> Wayne Newell
> Passamaquoddy Tribe
>
>
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Monica Macaulay <mmacaula at wisc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Yup, Potawatomi has both.  But Menominee has diminutive only.
>>
>> On May 7, 2013, at 6:29 PM, David Costa <pankihtamwa at earthlink.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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, *Potawatomi
>> II: Derivation, Personal Prefixes, and Nouns*. IJAL 14, especially pages
>> 70-1.)
>>
>> Dave Costa
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
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