Pejorative vs. Diminutive

[Bernie Francis]

Hola Wayne. Long time no  speakm. Writing to you from Mexico but should be back in Nova Scotia by this weekend.

Hope spring has sprung in Maine my friend.

bernie

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On 2013-05-08, at 8:18 AM, "Wayne Newell" <wnewellits at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> Aren't you glad I recommended Phil LaSord. We even woke up Bernie. Good to hear from you Bernie.
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> 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.
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> 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? 
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> Ann Morrison Spinney
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> On May 7, 2013, at 10:15 PM, Wayne Newell <wnewellits at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>  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.
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>> Wayne Newell
>> Passamaquoddy Tribe
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>> 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.
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>> On May 7, 2013, at 6:29 PM, David Costa <pankihtamwa at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>> 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.)
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>>> Dave Costa
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>>>> 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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