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adherence to the rule suggested here demands that this be written as mii-sh. The
convention, however, has been to write this combination as simply miish. In such cases, I
will stick to convention.
While hyphens most likely will have little benefit for the native speaker reader, the
use of hyphens in written Ojibwe serves to delineate for non-native speaking readers (and
language learners) the various levels of morphological complexity which exist in even the
simplest of phrases or sentences. For this reason, I make regular use of hyphens in this
thesis, including the use of hyphens to attach clitics to their host words (a practice done
by others, as noted by Valentine 2001:72). Sentences quoted from already published
texts that utilize the double vowel orthography, I keep the orthographic style of the
published work even if it means keeping clitics unattached. If I had to transliterate any
transcriptions written in a different orthography, this is duly noted. If I had to rework any
transcriptions because of poor transcription quality on the part of the original collector
(which I had to do on occasion for the purposes of this thesis), I use the convention of
attaching clitics to their host words using hyphens in my version of the transcription
provided in this thesis. In such cases, the audio is cited rather than the published text, but
I still provide the page number so that readers may quickly find the original text (albeit,
my version of the transcription may differ from the published transcription).
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