Philip S Lesourd
Biographic Data
| ID | 232114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip S Lesourd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lesourd |
| SIGNATURE | LESOURD P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8717-6353 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Hero's Quest: An Early Twentieth-Century Text in Passamaquoddy
The first issue of International Journal of American Linguistics , appearing in July 1917, included a text in the Eastern Algonquian language Passamaquoddy, which is spoken in Maine and is closely related to the Maliseet language of New Brunswick. The text was edited by John Dyneley Prince, who was at the time the leading scholar of the Algonquian languages of New England and Maritime Canada. This text is presented here in a new edition that corr…
Denominal Verbs in Algonquian: Verbs of Acquiring
This article proposes a lexical analysis of the derivation of denominal verbs of a type found widely in Algonquian languages: verbs of acquiring, which express the process by which the referent of the subject acquires tokens of items of the type named by the nominal on which the verb stem is based. Focusing on data from Ojibwe and Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, I argue against a proposed syntactic analysis of these verbs via noun incorporation, instead …
Four Poems in Passamaquoddy
This article presents analyses of four poems in Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language of Maine, that were published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some in more than one version. The original texts were included in works by Charles Godfrey Leland and John Dyneley Prince, two of the leading figures in their era involved in documenting the traditions of the Native peoples of New England and Maritime Canada
Raising and long-distance agreement in Passamaquoddy: A unified analysis
This article presents an analysis of two constructions in the Eastern Algonquian language Passamaquoddy in which the position of the object of a verb of cognition (‘know’, ‘believe’, ‘remember’, ‘wonder about’, ‘suspect’) is linked, either by apparent raising or by apparent long-distance agreement, to a position within a clausal complement to the verb. The latter position may be arbitrarily deeply embedded. The analysis developed here, formulated…
A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by Native Speakers
Reviewed by: A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by Native Speakers Philip S. LeSourd A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by Native Speakers. Ives Goddard and Lucy Thomason. Petoskey, Mich.: Mundart Press, 2014. Pp. vi + 423. $25.95 (paper). This volume provides an extensive compilation of words drawn from written works by native sp…
Enclitic Particles in Western Abenaki: Form and Function
Western Abenaki, an Eastern Algonquian language spoken until recently at Odanak (St. Francis), Quebec, makes extensive use of a set of enclitic particles that are typically placed in second position in a clause. This article presents an analysis of the formal properties of these particles, describes their meanings and their discourse functions, and provides a brief account of their syntactic distribution. The phonological properties of the clitic…
Prepositional Phrases in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
This article provides an analysis of the prepositional phrases of Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language of New Brunswick and Maine. It establishes that these phrases may function as constituents, even though they are frequently discontinuously expressed, demonstrates that they are headed by the particles that characterize them, and explores their internal structure. This structure is shown to be parallel to that of noun phrases i…
Does Maliseet-Passamaquoddy Have VP-Ellipsis
Richards (2009) proposes that VP-Ellipsis relates pairs of sentences in the Eastern Algonquian language Maliseet-Passamaquoddy that contain morphologically related verbs, one of which lacks a stem component that appears in the other. Under his proposal, the polysynthetic verbs of the language are decomposed into abstract syntactic structures, and VP-Ellipsis is applicable within the word. I argue that his data are better explained without postula…
Enclitic Particles in Western Abenaki: The Syntax of Second Position
In Western Abenaki, an Eastern Algonquian language, a number of enclitic particles, as well as certain cliticized words, are stationed in second position in the clause. In simple cases, second position is the position following the first phonological word of the clause, but complexities arise in particular constructions. A clause-initial conjunction may either host an enclitic or be skipped over in figuring clitic placement. A wh -word or focused…
Note de recherche: Sqewtómuhs, Femme des marais : une tradition malécite
Note de recherche : sqewtómuhs, Femme des marais : une tradition malécite. Un article de la revue Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (Les Malécites à l’aube du XXI e siècle) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
How to Swear in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and Penobscot
In the Eastern Algonquian languages Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and Penobscot, evaluative forms of verbs are derived by inserting one of several morphemes, not meaningful in themselves, within the verb stem. Corresponding derivatives of nouns and particles are formed by suffixation. This article documents the shapes that these derivatives take and the ways in which they are used to express anger, scorn, impatience, or intensity. Comparative evidence s…
Problems for the pronominal argument hypothesis in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
According to the pronominal argument hypothesis, the characteristic features of many so-called nonconfigurational languages may be accounted for on the assumption that affixes of verbs or auxiliaries in such languages either function as syntactic arguments or identify null pronouns that fill this role. Overt NPs then stand as adjuncts to clauses that are formally complete without them. Several studies have proposed analyses of Algonquian language…
Traces of Proto-Algonquian*wi·la'he, she' in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Proto‐Algonquian (PA) *wi·la ‘he, she’ has been replaced in the Eastern Algonquian languages, including contemporary Maliseet‐Passamaquoddy, by reflexes of Proto‐Eastern‐Algonquian (PEA) *ne·kəma, with the same meaning. The expected Passamaquoddy reflexes of PA *wi·la are attested, however, in material taken down by Albert S. Gatschet of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1897. The evidence of Gatschet’s recordings supports Bloomfield’s (1946) r…
Language and Culture
Language and Culture. David L. Shaul and N. Louanna Furbee. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1998. 305 pp
Diminutive Verb Forms in Passamaquoddy
Problems for the pronominal argument hypothesis in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
According to the pronominal argument hypothesis, the characteristic features of many so-called nonconfigurational languages may be accounted for on the assumption that affixes of verbs or auxiliaries in such languages either function as syntactic arguments or identify null pronouns that fill this role. Overt NPs then stand as adjuncts to clauses that are formally complete without them. Several studies have proposed analyses of Algonquian language…
Enclitic Particles in Western Abenaki: The Syntax of Second Position
In Western Abenaki, an Eastern Algonquian language, a number of enclitic particles, as well as certain cliticized words, are stationed in second position in the clause. In simple cases, second position is the position following the first phonological word of the clause, but complexities arise in particular constructions. A clause-initial conjunction may either host an enclitic or be skipped over in figuring clitic placement. A wh -word or focused…
Raising and long-distance agreement in Passamaquoddy: A unified analysis
This article presents an analysis of two constructions in the Eastern Algonquian language Passamaquoddy in which the position of the object of a verb of cognition (‘know’, ‘believe’, ‘remember’, ‘wonder about’, ‘suspect’) is linked, either by apparent raising or by apparent long-distance agreement, to a position within a clausal complement to the verb. The latter position may be arbitrarily deeply embedded. The analysis developed here, formulated…
Diminutive Verb Forms in Passamaquoddy
How to Swear in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and Penobscot
In the Eastern Algonquian languages Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and Penobscot, evaluative forms of verbs are derived by inserting one of several morphemes, not meaningful in themselves, within the verb stem. Corresponding derivatives of nouns and particles are formed by suffixation. This article documents the shapes that these derivatives take and the ways in which they are used to express anger, scorn, impatience, or intensity. Comparative evidence s…
Diminutive Verb Forms in Passamaquoddy
Language and Culture
Language and Culture. David L. Shaul and N. Louanna Furbee. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1998. 305 pp
Traces of Proto-Algonquian*wi·la'he, she' in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Proto‐Algonquian (PA) *wi·la ‘he, she’ has been replaced in the Eastern Algonquian languages, including contemporary Maliseet‐Passamaquoddy, by reflexes of Proto‐Eastern‐Algonquian (PEA) *ne·kəma, with the same meaning. The expected Passamaquoddy reflexes of PA *wi·la are attested, however, in material taken down by Albert S. Gatschet of the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1897. The evidence of Gatschet’s recordings supports Bloomfield’s (1946) r…
Problems for the pronominal argument hypothesis in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
According to the pronominal argument hypothesis, the characteristic features of many so-called nonconfigurational languages may be accounted for on the assumption that affixes of verbs or auxiliaries in such languages either function as syntactic arguments or identify null pronouns that fill this role. Overt NPs then stand as adjuncts to clauses that are formally complete without them. Several studies have proposed analyses of Algonquian language…
Note de recherche: Sqewtómuhs, Femme des marais : une tradition malécite
Note de recherche : sqewtómuhs, Femme des marais : une tradition malécite. Un article de la revue Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (Les Malécites à l’aube du XXI e siècle) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
How to Swear in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and Penobscot
In the Eastern Algonquian languages Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and Penobscot, evaluative forms of verbs are derived by inserting one of several morphemes, not meaningful in themselves, within the verb stem. Corresponding derivatives of nouns and particles are formed by suffixation. This article documents the shapes that these derivatives take and the ways in which they are used to express anger, scorn, impatience, or intensity. Comparative evidence s…
Enclitic Particles in Western Abenaki: The Syntax of Second Position
In Western Abenaki, an Eastern Algonquian language, a number of enclitic particles, as well as certain cliticized words, are stationed in second position in the clause. In simple cases, second position is the position following the first phonological word of the clause, but complexities arise in particular constructions. A clause-initial conjunction may either host an enclitic or be skipped over in figuring clitic placement. A wh -word or focused…
Does Maliseet-Passamaquoddy Have VP-Ellipsis
Richards (2009) proposes that VP-Ellipsis relates pairs of sentences in the Eastern Algonquian language Maliseet-Passamaquoddy that contain morphologically related verbs, one of which lacks a stem component that appears in the other. Under his proposal, the polysynthetic verbs of the language are decomposed into abstract syntactic structures, and VP-Ellipsis is applicable within the word. I argue that his data are better explained without postula…
Prepositional Phrases in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
This article provides an analysis of the prepositional phrases of Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language of New Brunswick and Maine. It establishes that these phrases may function as constituents, even though they are frequently discontinuously expressed, demonstrates that they are headed by the particles that characterize them, and explores their internal structure. This structure is shown to be parallel to that of noun phrases i…
Enclitic Particles in Western Abenaki: Form and Function
Western Abenaki, an Eastern Algonquian language spoken until recently at Odanak (St. Francis), Quebec, makes extensive use of a set of enclitic particles that are typically placed in second position in a clause. This article presents an analysis of the formal properties of these particles, describes their meanings and their discourse functions, and provides a brief account of their syntactic distribution. The phonological properties of the clitic…
A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by Native Speakers
Reviewed by: A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by Native Speakers Philip S. LeSourd A Meskwaki-English and English-Meskwaki Dictionary: Based on Early Twentieth-Century Writings by Native Speakers. Ives Goddard and Lucy Thomason. Petoskey, Mich.: Mundart Press, 2014. Pp. vi + 423. $25.95 (paper). This volume provides an extensive compilation of words drawn from written works by native sp…
Raising and long-distance agreement in Passamaquoddy: A unified analysis
This article presents an analysis of two constructions in the Eastern Algonquian language Passamaquoddy in which the position of the object of a verb of cognition (‘know’, ‘believe’, ‘remember’, ‘wonder about’, ‘suspect’) is linked, either by apparent raising or by apparent long-distance agreement, to a position within a clausal complement to the verb. The latter position may be arbitrarily deeply embedded. The analysis developed here, formulated…
Four Poems in Passamaquoddy
This article presents analyses of four poems in Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language of Maine, that were published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some in more than one version. The original texts were included in works by Charles Godfrey Leland and John Dyneley Prince, two of the leading figures in their era involved in documenting the traditions of the Native peoples of New England and Maritime Canada
Denominal Verbs in Algonquian: Verbs of Acquiring
This article proposes a lexical analysis of the derivation of denominal verbs of a type found widely in Algonquian languages: verbs of acquiring, which express the process by which the referent of the subject acquires tokens of items of the type named by the nominal on which the verb stem is based. Focusing on data from Ojibwe and Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, I argue against a proposed syntactic analysis of these verbs via noun incorporation, instead …
A Hero's Quest: An Early Twentieth-Century Text in Passamaquoddy
The first issue of International Journal of American Linguistics , appearing in July 1917, included a text in the Eastern Algonquian language Passamaquoddy, which is spoken in Maine and is closely related to the Maliseet language of New Brunswick. The text was edited by John Dyneley Prince, who was at the time the leading scholar of the Algonquian languages of New England and Maritime Canada. This text is presented here in a new edition that corr…
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