Hey, you can't spell wrong in Ojibwemowin Erin! Anishinaabemowin was never written down...if you hear a t in miigwe(t)ch, write it, because I am hearing that t sound around here too, everything changes...it seems that I'm the only one left around here that does not use the n word _iiji, a mindimoo (old lady) long ago told me just not to use it and I'd save myself a lot of embarrassment, but now I don't think that she meant not to use it in all contexts, but I still can't bring myself to say it because some things are hard to change.
Good to see you back :) I hope your recovery keeps progressing :)
The simplest way to define a morpheme is to look at it as being the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning. It is different from a word....as morphemes cannot generally stand on their own but they are generally are added to words to make meaning.
Ojibwe often builds up words by stringing morphemes together to make words. For instance, a simple examples....gii-izhi-mino-bimaadiziwag - they lived a good life (which is actually one word) is composed of many word parts that have distinct meaning. gii- past tense izhi - in a certain way mino- good bim- to carry along aadizi - to have a lived nature wag - plural
These all come together in patterned ways that 'grammar' describes. you could not combine these in any other way to get meaning. This is part of the wonderfully complex nature of Ojibwemowin :) Good question :)_
It is agglutinating, and thus builds up words by stringing morpheme after morpheme together,
The concept morpheme differs from the concept word, as many morphemes cannot stand as words on their own. A morpheme is free if it can stand alone, or bound if it is used exclusively alongside a free morpheme. Its actual phonetic representation is the morph, with the different morphs representing the same morpheme being grouped as its allomorphs.
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Hey, you can't spell wrong in Ojibwemowin Erin! Anishinaabemowin was never written down...if you hear a t in miigwe(t)ch, write it, because I am hearing that t sound around here too, everything changes...it seems that I'm the only one left around here that does not use the n word _iiji, a mindimoo (old lady) long ago told me just not to use it and I'd save myself a lot of embarrassment, but now I don't think that she meant not to use it in all contexts, but I still can't bring myself to say it because some things are hard to change.
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ReplyDeleteGood to see you back :) I hope your recovery keeps progressing :)
The simplest way to define a morpheme is to look at it as being the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning. It is different from a word....as morphemes cannot generally stand on their own but they are generally are added to words to make meaning.
Ojibwe often builds up words by stringing morphemes together to make words. For instance, a simple examples....gii-izhi-mino-bimaadiziwag - they lived a good life (which is actually one word) is composed of many word parts that have distinct meaning.
gii- past tense
izhi - in a certain way
mino- good
bim- to carry along
aadizi - to have a lived nature
wag - plural
These all come together in patterned ways that 'grammar' describes. you could not combine these in any other way to get meaning. This is part of the wonderfully complex nature of Ojibwemowin :) Good question :)_
It is agglutinating, and thus builds up words by stringing morpheme after morpheme together,
The concept morpheme differs from the concept word, as many morphemes cannot stand as words on their own. A morpheme is free if it can stand alone, or bound if it is used exclusively alongside a free morpheme. Its actual phonetic representation is the morph, with the different morphs representing the same morpheme being grouped as its allomorphs.