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(30) coordinating conjunction
a) (Kegg 1991:66-67)
Wegwaagi 37 iniw aya’aan mashkodesiminan miinawaa gookooshan imaa
look that whatchamacallem beans and pork there
ezhi-dagozonid.
cooking with something
‘Why look, there were beans and pork cooking in there.’
b) (Anderson 1991)
Naawigiizisookwe gii-onaanigozi, miinawaa gii-kizhewaadizi.
Naawigiizisookwe she was happy and she was kind
‘Naawigiizisookwe was happy and kind.’
c) (Kegg 1991:154-155)
Mii eta go gaa-izhichiged, apane gii-izhaad iwidi Gabekanaansing
DP only EMPH what he did always he went over there Portage Lake
bibooninig, agoodood miinawaa wanii’iged.
in the winter that he snares and that he traps
‘That’s all he did, always going there to Portage Lake in the winter, snaring and
trapping.’
In (30a) miinawaa coordinates two noun phrases: mashkodesiminan ‘beans’ and
gookooshan ‘pork’. In (30b), it coordinates two verb phrases (independent clauses): gii-
onaanigozi ‘she was happy’ and gii-kizhewaadizi ‘she was kind’. In (30c), it coordinates
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My consultants were not familiar with the word wegwaagi as it appears in Kegg 1991, which is a
compilation of stories collected in the 1970s. This term appears to have gone out of use with modern
speakers.
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