Border Lakes Ojibwe Elicitation: Obviation and Transitive Word Order

A collection of elicitation materials from a field methods session conducted by Hope Trischuk with consultant Nancy Jones on January 21, 2025. It documents the Border Lakes Ojibwe (BLO) dialect, specifically focusing on obviation, voice systems, and word order flexibility in transitive sentences.

Use Cases

• Investigating the interaction between obviation markers and transitive verb morphology
• Analyzing word order permutations in sentences featuring two 3rd person referents
• Studying the voice system of Border Lakes Ojibwe to identify dialect-specific syntactic patterns

Strengths

• Primary source data from a specific Border Lakes Ojibwe (BLO) field session
• Targeted linguistic focus on obviation and transitive sentence flexibility
• Identified consultant and researcher provide clear provenance

Limitations

• Extremely limited sample size consisting of a single session's materials
• Potential for individual speaker bias as data is sourced from one consultant
• Unknown file formats and record counts hinder technical assessment

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

linguistic field elicitation

Time Range

2025-01-21

Freshness

Single-point collection from January 21, 2025; no scheduled updates.

Geography

Border Lakes region, North America