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Verb Conjugation Applet Credits
How to cite us
To cite the East Cree Verb App, choose your dialect and style:
Northern Dialect
Junker, M.-O. & MacKenzie, M. (Eds.). (2010-2014). East Cree (Northern Dialect) Verb Conjugation (3rd ed.). Retrieved from http://verbn.eastcree.org/.
Junker, Marie-Odile, and Marguerite MacKenzie, eds. East Cree (Northern Dialect) Verb Conjugation (3rd ed.). 2010-2014. Web. [Date].
[Date] = the date you accessed the app, styled as follows: 13 Dec. 2013
Southern Dialect
Junker, M.-O., & MacKenzie, M. (Eds.). (2011-2014). East Cree (Southern Dialect) Verb Conjugation (3rd ed.). Retrieved from http://verbs.eastcree.org/.
Junker, Marie-Odile, and Marguerite MacKenzie, eds. East Cree (Southern Dialect) Verb Conjugation (3rd ed.). 2011-2014. Web. [Date].
[Date] = the date you accessed the app, styled as follows: 13 Dec. 2013
Project Directors, Editors
| Marie-Odile Junker | Marguerite MacKenzie |
Programming and Updates of the Applet
| Delasie Torkornoo (2007-present) | Terry Stewart (2005) |
Database Design
The original design was created in a Toolbox database developed by Bill Jancewicz for Naskapi verbs in the late 1990s, before being adapted and expanded to East Cree in 2001-2002 by Bill Jancewicz & Marie-Odile Junker.
It was further developed by Marie-Odile Junker, Terry Stewart (2005), and Delasie Torkornoo (2007-present) with subsequent alterations continuing to date to be compatible with the applet, the online dictionary and the inflected verb forms search engine. (www.eastcree.org).
- Publication:
- Junker, Marie-Odile & Stewart. 2008. Building Search Engines for Algonquian Languages. In Karl S. Hele and Regna Darnell (eds.). Papers of the 39th Algonquian Conference. London: University of Western Ontario Press, 378-411.
History of Documentation of East Cree verbs
Initial data collection of East Cree verb conjugations by Marguerite MacKenzie (1969-1981):
- Documentation by Marguerite MacKenzie started in the winter of 1969-70 in Montreal and in the summer of 1970 in the community of Mistissini. Philip Awashish served as chief informant, and Demerise Coon Come and her family also helped checking the data.
- Publication:
- MacKenzie, Marguerite. 1971. The Eastern (Mistissini) Cree Verb: Derivational morphology. Master’s Thesis, McGill University.
- More data was collected during the 1970s during courses given by MacKenzie at the native schools’ amerindianization project, organized by Indian Affairs.
- Publication:
- MacKenzie, Marguerite & Sandra Clarke. 1981. Dialect relations in Cree/Montagnais/Naskapi: Verb Paradigms. In L. Drapeau (Ed.), Montréal Working Papers in Linguistics, 16:135-191.
Subsequent data collection (1981-2002):
- Marguerite MacKenzie kept collecting data with Cree Programs staff (up to 1999) during training courses and elicitation workshops. The results were printed in a draft volume: East Cree Verb Paradigms, edited by Marguerite MacKenzie and Luci Salt in February 2001.
- Sound recording of data: Marie-Odile Junker with Luci Salt and Louise Blacksmith (started in October 2001). This led to many corrections and revisions.
- This data was transferred under Marie-Odile Junker’s supervision into a Toolbox database during the summer of 2002.
Further data collection (2002-2013):
- Documentation of various stems and addition of new paradigms, along with the creation of the on-line interactive reference grammar (www.eastcree.org/grammar): Marie-Odile Junker & Marguerite MacKenzie, with Cree Programs staff members (especially Luci Bobbish-Salt, Daisy Moar and Ruth Salt) as well as Louise Blacksmith (for Southern Inland dialect). Many workshops and teleconferences were held over the years.
| Proofreading | |
| Ruth Salt (Southern Dialect, 2010) | Luci Bobbish-Salt (Northern Dialect, 2009) |
Elders and Resource Persons Consulted (Over the Years)
| Chisasibi | Elsie Duff | Waskaganish | Elizabeth Jolly |
| Harry Duff | Edwin Jolly | ||
| Edith Sam | Louise Diamond (late) | ||
| Maria Scipio | Johnny Whiskeychan (late) | ||
| Harry Scipio | Alec Weistche | ||
| Samuel Bearskin | Jimmy Moar | ||
| Margaret Bearskin | Rupert Erless (late) | ||
| Bobby Neacappo | Sanders Weistche | ||
| Georgie Snowboy | Josephine Diamond | ||
| Eastmain | Florrie Mark-Stewart | Patricia Diamond | |
| Mistissini | Philip Awashish | Wemindji | Mary B. Georgekish |
| Boyce Blacksmith (late) | Linda Visitor | ||
| Evadney Blacksmith | Frances Visitor | ||
| Demerise Coon Come | Whapmagoostui | James Kawapit | |
| Smalley Petawabano (late) | Maggie Natachequon | ||
| Lauri Petawabano | Andrew Natachequon | ||
| Waswanipi | Allan Kitchen | Jimmy George | |
| Mary Blacksmith | Vera George |
Sound Recording Done at Carleton University (2000-2004)
| Voices Of: | |
| Louise Blacksmith (Southern dialect) | Luci Salt (Northern dialect) |
| Frances Visitor (Northern dialect) | Alice Duff (Northern dialect) |
Research Assistants (at Carleton University)
| Sound Editing and Database Entry | |
| Candice Diamond (2002) | Thomas Wasipabano (2002) |
| Margaret Cox (2002, 2004) | Suzanne House (2004) |
| Rhonda Iserhoff (2004) | Hank House (2004) |
| Alison Bobbish (2004) | |
| Data Verification and Morpheme Analysis | |
| Michael David Hamilton (2009-2010) | Caitlyn Martinuzzi (2014) |
| Technical Support | |
| Radu Luchian (2002-2004) | |
Financial and Institutional Support
Cree School Board, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (grants # 820-2000-2013, 856-2004-1028, 856-2009-0081), Carleton University.
Technology
Open-source, General Public Licence 3.0 (http://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0)
- Latest edition (2014): HTML output generated by CakePHP framework (CakePHP version 2.4, running on PHP 5 and SQLite).
- First edition (2011): HTML output generated by a Python TurboGears framework (TurboGears version 0.9, Python version 2)
- Source code for both versions is available upon request (admin@eastcree.org).