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This descriptive reference grammar of Nishnaabemwin (Odawa and Eastern Ojibwe), a major dialect group within contemporary Ojibwe spoken in the vicinity of Lake Huron in Southern Ontario, includes extensive descriptive treatment of: phonology, orthography, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, and major structural and functional syntactic categories. Points of grammar are illustrated with example sentences indexed with thorough grammatical annotations. An extensive glossary of standard Algonquian linguistic terms is also provided. Written for both the beginning linguist as well as the scholar of Algonquian languages, this grammar provides simple explanations of linguistic terms as well as a thorough and comprehensive study of the language.

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J. Randolph Valentine is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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