EASTERN OJIBWA: Grammatical Sketch, Texts & Word List

Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1957. (USA) Presumed 1st edition 1957) Owner's name, no other markings, Very Good in unclipped Acceptable dust jaccket in mylar sleeve. Blacck cloth, xii, 271pp, index, no illus. Leonard Bloomfield (1887- 1949) was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. He is considered to be the father of American distributionalism. In this study, Bloomfield presents his only extended treatment of the Central Algonquin syntax. A dialect of the Central Algonquin tongue, Ojibwa is spoken by the American Indians in the area of Lakes Superior, Huron, and Michigan; in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and in Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. The texts, transcribed as dictated by an informant and phonetically rendered by Bernard Bloch, include an Indian's childhood memories: Grandmother, The White Man, Falling in the Water, Spring Thunderstorm; as well as Indian Folklore: The Sweating Cure, Fasting, Burial Rites, Love Medicine. Working with this unique collection of texts, which includes in several instances two or three versions of the same story, Bloomfield solves the two great phonetic difficulties of Ojibwa: distinction of lenis and fortis consonants, and the distinction of long and short vowels. (2.1 JM HOQ 103/b4. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".