Ojibwe discourse markers / Brendan Fairbanks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fairbanks, Brendan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ojibwa language--Discourse analysis.

Ojibwa language.

Discourse markers.

Ojibwa language--Grammar.

Ojibwa language--Connectives.

Ojibwa language--Texts.

Discourse analysis.

Ojibwa language--Spoken Ojibwa.

Ojibwa Indians--Social life and customs.

Ojibwa Indians.

Genre:

Texts.

Physical Description:

206 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Brendan Fairbanks examines the challenging subject of discourse markers in Ojibwe, one of the many indigenous languages in the Algonquian family. Mille Lacs elder Jim Clark once described the discourse markers as "little bugs that are holding on for dear life." For example, discourse markers such as mii and gosha exist only on the periphery of sentences to provide either cohesion or nuance to utterances. Fairbanks focuses on the discourse markers that are the most ubiquitous and that exist most commonly within Ojibwe texts. Much of the research on Algonquian languages has concentrated primarily on the core morphological and syntactical characteristics of their sentence structure. Fairbanks restricts his study to markers that are far more elusive and difficult in terms of semantic ambiguity and their contribution to sentences and Ojibwe discourse. Ojibwe Discourse Markers is a remarkable study that interprets and describes the Ojibwe language in its broader theoretical concerns in the field of linguistics. With a scholarly and pedagogical introductory chapter and a glossary of technical terms, this book will be useful to instructors and students of Ojibwe as a second language in language revival and maintenance programs."-- Provided by publisher.

"An exploration of the uninflected grammatical particles that are ubiquitous among Native speakers of the Ojibwe language and that exist in Ojibwe texts"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780803299337

0803299338

OCLC:

928607491