Ojibwe Discourse Markers resistance A widow and mother

A widow and mother

with inadequate shelter

this new edition of Fatty Legs will continue to resonate with readers young and old

though they were born more than 100 years apart

including how the earth and its people had formed and developed over time

Ojibwe Discourse Markers resistance A widow and motherBrendan Fairbanks examines the challenging subject of discourse markers in Ojibwe, one of the many indigenous languages in the Algonquian family. Mille Lacs elder Jim Clark once described the discourse markers as little bugs that are holding on for dear life. For example, discourse markers such as "mii "and "gosha" exist only on the periphery of sentences to provide either cohesion or nuance to utterances. Fairbanks focuses on the discourse markers