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From Ojibwa to Dakota: Toward a Typology of Semantic Transformations in American Indian Languages

From Ojibwa to Dakota: Toward a Typology of Semantic Transformations in American Indian Languages Abstract: In this article we propose a radical new typological approach to the diversity of North American languages that is directly inspired by Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologiques and his concept of transformation. As with mythology, the semantic dimension of phenomena is crucial. A comparison between the grammars of an Algonquian and a Siouan language will serve as a first illustration of the logical transformations linking two language families that previously have been considered to be fundamentally distinct. A parallel appears between the results obtained and those stemming from a comparison between the principal ritual manifestations of Sioux culture and Subarctic Algonquian culture. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

From Ojibwa to Dakota: Toward a Typology of Semantic Transformations in American Indian Languages

Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 51 (2) – Jul 14, 2009

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Abstract: In this article we propose a radical new typological approach to the diversity of North American languages that is directly inspired by Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Mythologiques and his concept of transformation. As with mythology, the semantic dimension of phenomena is crucial. A comparison between the grammars of an Algonquian and a Siouan language will serve as a first illustration of the logical transformations linking two language families that previously have been considered to be fundamentally distinct. A parallel appears between the results obtained and those stemming from a comparison between the principal ritual manifestations of Sioux culture and Subarctic Algonquian culture.

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Anthropological LinguisticsUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Jul 14, 2009

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