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Assimilation and Rule Application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Eric P. Hamp
Eric P. Hamp*
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University of Chicago
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Abstract

The Proto-Algonquian word for ‘grandchild’ has harbored subtle problems of reconstructive detail for Algonquianists. The Ojibwa and Menomini forms disagree, but do not warrant setting up a fresh phonetic correspondence. On the basis of new Ojibwa data, a fresh solution is offered which actually inheres in the data already known. Given the protoform *n(e)-Hōšihsema, an explanation follows naturally from the respective formations of diminutives in Ojibwa and Menomini. The problem is submitted as illustrating a point of non-superficial reconstruction, having interest for general theory.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 1967 , pp. 179 - 184
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Copyright © 1967 by Linguistic Society of America

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