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BRIEF NOTICES 501 grouping within Montagnais, arguing that the Bersimis dialect stands apart from the others. The only linguistic paper which goes beyond Algonquian materials is David H. Pentland's account of diminutive consonant symbolism. After documenting this phenomenon for Algonquian in greater detail than has previously been done, Pentland expands on Karl Teeter's suggestion (IJAL 25:43, 1959) that the rule affricating dental stops which is operative in diminutives in Wiyot (and in Yurok, which Teeter does not mention in this connection), as well as in Algonquian, should be ascribed to Proto-Algic: he claims that an s -* S diminutive rule has the same status— and further, that Proto-Algic is the single source in North America for both this palatalizing variety of diminutive consonant symbolism and the / —>¦ r type found in Wiyot and Yurok. Finally, John Hewson reports on the progress ofacomputer-assisted Proto-Algonquian dictionary based on Bloomfield's Fox, Cree, Menomini, and Ojibwa data, as well as on Ojibwa data from the University of Toronto. A welcome feature of this work, 75% complete at the time of the conference, is an alphabetical list of reconstructed morphemes, cross-referenced to the entries ofthe dictionary proper. Unfortunately, however, neither the keypunching nor the cross-referencing is error-free in the sample pages offered as appendices. [Brent de Chene, UCLA.] Papers of the Seventh Algonquian Conference , 1975. Edited by William Cowan. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1976. Pp. 493, 19. This volume contains 25 papers on 'the history, archaeology, ethnology and linguistics of the Algonquian-speaking peoples'. Those of primarily linguistic content are: Philip Barbour, 'Ocanahowan and recently discovered linguistic fragments from southern Virginia, c. 1650" (2-17); D. H. Pentland, 'In defence of Edward Umfreville' (62-104; upholds the validity of Umfreville's Atsina vocabulary of 1790); George F. Aubin, 'Color terms in Narragansett' (105-14; supports the views of Berlin & Kay, Basic color terms, 1969); Richard Rhodes, ? preliminary report on the dialects of Eastern Ojibwa-Odawa' (129-56); Donald G. Frantz, 'Unspecified-object phenomena in Algonquian ' (197-216); Jean H. Rogers, 'Coding of role information in Ojibwa' (257-71 ; how cross-reference works); Bruce Pearson, 'Lexical symbolization and phonological processes in Delaware' (297-311, a 'model of a phonological grammar'); William Cowan, "The generation gap in Montagnais dialectology' (323-38); Alan Ford, 'L'accentuation dans Ie montagnais de la Moisie' (347-60); James L. Fidelholtz, 'Someconsiderationsin developing an orthography for the Micmac language' (361-413); Barbara Burnaby, 'Algonquian languages in Indian education' (436-49). Of related interest is Dean R. Snow, "The archaeological implications of the ProtoAlgonquian Urheimat' (339-46), re-examining Frank Siebert's 1967 attempt to derive culture-historical information from reconstructed lexicon. Under the broader heading of 'ethnography of communication', an article by Richard J. Preston, 'Reticence and self-expression; a study of style in social relationships' (450-94), describes Eastern Cree values in terms which might be relevant for many other American Indian cultures, and provides a curious sidelight on linguistic acculturation: 'Where the persons have not seen each other for some time, a single, nearly limp handshake is appropriate, often with the verbal greeting "Wachia" or "Bosure" or "Hello" ... Wachia is a modification of "What cheer" and Boshure [sic] is a modified "Bonjour" ...' (461; 491, fn. 6). As Cowan says in his editorial introduction, 'it is a pleasure to reflect on how far we have come ... from 1964, when ... there were 12 linguists in all of North America actively engaged in Algonquian linguistics. There must be many dozens by now.' [William Bright, UCLA.] Papers in linguistics from the 1972 Conference on Iroquoian Research. Edited by Michael K. Foster. (National Museum of Man, Mercury series, Ethnology Division, paper 10.) Ottawa: National Museums of Canada, 1974. Pp. vii, 118. $1.50. Five of the seven papers presented at the Conference on Iroquoian Research in 1972 form the content of this publication. The general linguist may find the first three papers 502 LANGUAGE, VOLUME 53, NUMBER 2 (1977) of most interest, although they are quite modest in scope. A brief summary of each paper follows. Hanni Woodbury, 'Noun incorporation and Onondaga "relative" constructions', shows that an Iroquois noun may, under certain conditions, be incorporated into the verb...

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