[6][7] Leonard Bloomfield (1946) was able to reconstruct the phonology system and some of the morphology of Proto-Algonquian through the comparison of cognates from four languages: Fox, Cree, Menomini, and Ojibwa.

[8] In comparison to other eastern tribes, the Ojibwa have suffered the least population loss at the time of European contact.

[11] It was common for small groups to go onto the Plains to exploit the hunt and then return to the Woodland area.

As a result, they gradually advanced north and west from their Red River base, following the forest edge.

The bison hunt also became incorporated into the cycle of seasonal exploitation for many of the Ojibwa family groups.

This name derives from French and refers to those that gathered around the falls – specifically the Sault Ste.

[18] Western Ojibwa is non-syncopating which means that weak vowels are not deleted according to metrical position.

Some items that are neither human nor animal are still considered animate—e.g., rock, pipe, raspberries, pants.

The gender of an entity is important because for many morphemes, the language uses gender-specific morphology that distinguishes the animate from the inanimate.

This direction can be inverted meaning that the verb marks when the obviative is acting on the proximate by using the inverse morpheme –ikô-: Animohš-∅dog-PROXowâpamikônsee.INVpôsîns-ancat-OBVAnimohš-∅ owâpamikôn pôsîns-andog-PROX see.INV cat-OBVThe dog is seen by a cat.

[20] Valentine (1994) found the following morphological properties for Western Ojibwa:[7] Saulteaux is a non-configurational language which means that it has free word order.

A fully inflected verb constitutes a sentence or clause on its own with the subject, object, aspect and other notions expressed through the verbal morphology.

As a result, the occurrence of DPs referring to the arguments of verbs is optional and often left out.

[26]The thematic information is applied verb-internally and not at the sentence level and so the affixes and clitics are arguments.