Monica Macaulay received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of California–Berkeley. She is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and President of the Endangered Language Fund, a nonprofit organization that funds language revitalization and preservation projects around the world. She also works closely with the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin on language preservation and revitalization.Margaret Noodin received an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English and Linguistics from the University of Minnesota. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee where she also serves as the Director of the Electa Quinney Institute and teaches Anishinaabemowin. She is also cocreator of www.ojibwe.net and has published a bilingual edition of poetry in Anishinaabemowin and English.

• Contents Preface Patterns of Syncretism in Nominal Paradigms: A Pan-Algonquian Perspective - Heather Bliss and Will Oxford Two Idiomatic Verbs of Speaking in North East Cree - Vincent Collette Obviation and Information Structure in Meskwaki - Amy Dahlstrom La sémantique de l’accord à longue distance en algonquin - Brandon J. Fry and Éric Mathieu Agi nenadi iboni medgakiwiyattini: Understanding the Individual in Meshkwaki Culture through History - Erik D. Gooding Ditransitives and Possessor Raising in Mi’gmaq - Michael David Hamilton The Syntax of Medial Incorporation and Concrete Finals in Menominee - Meredith Johnson and Bryan Rosen Animacy and Transitivity Alternations in Blackfoot - Kyumin Kim Negation and Indefinite Pronouns in Mi’gmaq - Carol-Rose Little Revisiting Potawatomi Derivational Morphology - Hunter Thompson Lockwood Discontinuous Constituents in Ojibwe: Accounting for Two Preverbal Words - Cherry Meyer Obviation, Inversion, and the Notion of Topic in Algonquian - Richard A. Rhodes Algonquian Naming, Power, and Relationality in a Rare Native Love Poem - Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel Contributors