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 Emmanuel Désveaux, and Michel de Fornel, 2009   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...

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