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Query Subject:	Ottawa Animacy Hierarchy
Author:	Naomi Fox
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Linguistic LingField(s):	Language Documentation Morphology Sociolinguistics Anthropological Linguistics

Query:	Dear Linguists, For my MA thesis, I'm preparing to do some fieldwork focusing on first- and second- person constructions (speech act participants) in Ottawa, focusing on constructions where the speech act participants are acting on each other. I'm looking into the possibility of morphological reanalysis or restructuring due to language contact with English. Although I have access to Valentine, Rhodes, and Bloomfield, I'm having trouble finding resources relating to this topic. I'd appreciate any references on 1) the Ottawa language in general and the Walpole Island area in particular 2) animacy hierarchy systems in Algonquian languages 3) language contact and effects on language structure (rather than lexical borrowing) 4) elicitation methodology focusing on first/second person constructions 5) any related topics which come to mind Thank you in advance for your response, and I will of course post a summary to the list. As this is my first fieldwork experience, any and all suggestions are welcome. Regards, Naomi Fox WSU Linguistics Program and LINGUIST List E-Mail address: fox@linguistlist.org Home page: http://www.linguistlist.org/people/fox.html
LL Issue:	15.3051
Date posted:	27-Oct-2004
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