Anishinaabemowin Field Materials: Obviative Subjects of Intransitive Verbs

Linguistic elicitation materials from a February 4, 2025, field methods session document the grammatical acceptability of obviative subjects in Anishinaabemowin. Collected by Hope Trischuk from consultant Nancy Jones, the data focuses on specific intransitive verb stems and their interaction with obviative noun forms. The collection represents a targeted study of Algonquian morphosyntax within a single session.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the morphosyntax of obviative subjects with the verb 'nagamo-' (sing)
• Comparing the acceptability of proper name obviation versus common noun obviation using 'ikwezens'
• Linguistic research into Anishinaabemowin intransitive verb constraints

Strengths

• Expert-consultant sourced from Nancy Jones
• Focuses on specific morphosyntactic features including obviative subjects
• Includes specific Anishinaabemowin verb stems like 'zhoomiingweni-'

Limitations

• Extremely small sample size from a single session
• Narrow focus on only three intransitive verbs
• Unknown file format and internal structure

Provenance

Source

Hope Trischuk, Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Linguistic field elicitation session

Time Range

2025-02-04

Freshness

Single-point collection from February 2025.