[Algonquiana] animacy question

[Robert Brightman]

A remote analogy: Mary Black recorded SW Oiibwe /giigoonh/ as anim 
'fish' and inan 'dead fish.'  I never found parallel  [+/-
living] pairs in Woods Cree.

On 12/10/15 3:07 PM, Guillaume Jacques wrote:
> 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 exists in other Algonquian languages, 
> I think.
>
> 2015-12-10 21:48 GMT+01:00 MONICA MACAULAY <mmacaula at wisc.edu 
> <mailto:mmacaula at wisc.edu>>:
>
>     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 and have been wondering about it for a while.
>
>     thanks!
>
>     - Monica
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