12.2483, Qs: Algonquian Stress, Basque Questions

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-2483. Sun Oct 7 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.2483, Qs: Algonquian Stress, Basque Questions

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1)
Date:  Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:50:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:  tomasz wisniewski <tomwisn at yahoo.com>
Subject:  where is stress in Algonquian

2)
Date:  Thu, 04 Oct 2001 15:37:03 +0200
From:  Johannes Reese <reesej at uni-muenster.de>
Subject:  question to Basque native speakers

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:50:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:  tomasz wisniewski <tomwisn at yahoo.com>
Subject:  where is stress in Algonquian

I hope someone can help me solve the following problem.

I've read a number of papers and books about Algonquian languages
(especially Cree and Ojibway) and I've never found anything about
pitch or stress.  It is neither marked in texts nor discussed in
otherwise detailed phonetic introductions.

In the sound files found on the internet I can hear some syllables
"stressed", but I cannot deduce anything, since I can't separate
words, and I can't say what the role of syllable length and sentence
intonation is.

Can anyone give me details about the nature and placement of stress in
Cree and Ojibway?

I will appreciate all answers.

Tomasz Wisniewski
tomwisn at yahoo.com


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Date:  Thu, 04 Oct 2001 15:37:03 +0200
From:  Johannes Reese <reesej at uni-muenster.de>
Subject:  question to Basque native speakers

Hallo,

is there any Basque speaker around who can check the translations of the
following sentences for me:

*Aunt Theresa resembled my grandmother.

My grandmother resembled resembled Aunt Theresa.

Aunt Theresa resembles my grandmother.

*My grandmother resembles Aunt Theresa.

It is assumed that the grandmother is dead and the aunt still alive; the
sentences that are awkward under these circumstances are marked by an
asterisk. I'm looking for a translation with and without inversion
(which should be possible in Basque, shouldn't it?), making eight
sentences as a whole. Inversion means here, exchanging subject (in
ergative?) and object (in absolutive?).

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Regards and thanks

Johannes

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