Referring to a Deceased Person in Plains Cree

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-56
Author(s):  
Vincent Collette
Keyword(s):  
Plains Cree ◽  
Deceased Person

Articles

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Gillon ◽  
Nicole Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Plains Cree ◽  
Lower Position ◽  
Article System ◽  
Definite Articles

This chapter focuses on the article system in Michif. Articles are particularly problematic for the French DP/Plains Cree VP split posited for Michif (Bakker 1997). Despite being French-derived, the Michif articles do not behave like their French counterparts. Michif definite articles occupy a lower position within the DP than French definite articles do, and Michif lacks definiteness, despite having borrowed both the definite and indefinite articles. Even more problematically, the singular definite articles are used to Algonquianize non-Algonquian vocabulary—both within the DP and the VP. Thus, a piece of French morphosyntax has been appropriated to create structures that can be interpreted within Algonquian syntax, providing more evidence that ultimately the Michif DP is Algonquian, rather than French.

Funerary Ritual

2019 ◽  
pp. 292-309
Author(s):  
Mireia López-Bertran
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Deceased Person ◽  
Funerary Rituals ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Common ◽  
Funerary Rites ◽  
Written Sources

This chapter explores the funerary rites in the Phoenician-Punic world from a comprehensive point of view, and it focuses on the common points arising from a large amount of data. The concern for burying their deceased and the belief in the soul’s afterlife show that the Phoenicians considered death as a transformation rather than as the end of a person’s life. Through our access to archaeological remains and written sources, we can reconstruct the existence of a meaningful burial program that was destined to provide a “good death” and afterlife. Funerary rituals, thus, are the actions or gestures to achieve this goal. The aim of this chapter is to explain the rites that family members undertook once someone died, in order to transform correctly the deceased person into an otherworldly being, the ancestor. The social implications of the data arising from burials are also briefly considered.

Plains Cree: A Grammatical Study

Language ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 516
Author(s):  
Regna Darnell ◽  
H. Christoph Wolfart
Keyword(s):  
Plains Cree

scholarly journals Nyorat ceremony of Hindu Kaharingan adherents: Telawang District, East Kotawaringin Regency

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Riwun ◽  
Ida Ayu Gde Yadnyawati ◽  
I Wayan Suka Yasa
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Social Factor ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Deceased Person ◽  
Religious System ◽  
Ancestral Spirit ◽  
The Social

The result of the study covers all three aspects. First, the causes of the Nyorat ceremony are held after thirty days of dead body to be lied down in the funeral house: (1) The belief factor of the spirit of the deceased person, (2) the fear factor for the unfortunate (3) religious social factor, (4) the economic factor of the Kaharingan Hindu adherents , and (5) the factor of affection towards the ancestral spirit of the late. The last factor is based on the assumptions, namely (1) preparing the Nyorat ceremonial facilities and infrastructure, (2) it is not to lose the meaning that can be inherent in it, (3) to purify/cleanse the spirit of the dead so that the sacred and inner and family will get happiness back. The implications of the Nyorat ceremony are (1) the religious implications relating to the belief of the Hindu Kaharingan adherents from generation to generation, that if they are not implemented, they will lose the meaning of the Nyorat ceremonial purposes, (2) the psychological implications require cooperation, (3) the social implications culture is the act of intervening to support the course of the ceremony, and (4) the economic implications of the community strongly support the course of the ceremony. Based on the results of the analysis, it is obtained three things. The first is the reasons of the Hindu adherents to conduct the Nyorat ceremony, the second is processes of implementation of the Nyorat ceremony, the three religious, psychological, and social implications, and the community’s economy towards the Hindu Kaharingan religious system are acceptable to the local community.

scholarly journals Mari сlothing in the funeral and memorial rituals (late XIX – early XX century)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-292
Author(s):  
Aleksandra A. Pesetskaya
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Deceased Person ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
Interview Methods ◽  
Historical Methods

Introduction. The paper considers the Mari clothing for funeral and memorial rituals, its specific features, and functions. The purpose of the research is to define a role and application that clothes have in ceremonies. Materials and Methods. As the research materials for the article, the author used ethnographic sources published in the XIX and early XX centuries, field journals by Tatyana Kryukova belonged to the Archive of the Russian Museum of Ethnography, as well as the author’s personal field research materials, collected during personal expeditionary activities in the Mari El Republic. The structural-functional and comparatively historical methods were the major methods for the research. The research materials were collected by means of participant observation and semi-structural interview methods. Results and Discussion. The Mari clothing during the funeral and memorial ceremonies marked two core functions, being represented by a costume of the deceased person and as an independent ritual object. Dressing the deceased person entailed a number of taboos whereas some clothes of the deceased were used to fill up the coffin. During the memorial rituals, the clothing of the deceased became a part of the «substitution» ritual when the role of the deceased was taken on by living people who were present at the ceremony. Apart from that, the clothing served as a present for the participants of the ceremony. Conclusion. A change of clothes in the lifecycle rituals marked a transfer of the clothes’ owner from one condition to another. A deceased person was a key figure during the funeral rite, while a change of his clothes facilitated their separation from the living ones. The costume itself was characterized by the inversion of the details and revealed its reference to wedding items. In the context of the memorial ceremonies, the clothing functioned as means of communication between a deceased and living ones, whereas its prolonged use accepted as a gift allowed maintaining the communication.

scholarly journals "Responsibility" to Provide: Family Provision Claims in Victoria

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Samantha Renwick
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationship ◽  
Moral Duty ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Deceased Person ◽  
Adequate Provision ◽  
Close Family ◽  
Selection Of

Family provision legislation was introduced in Victoria in 1906 to allow the court to order provision from the estate of a deceased person whose will did not make adequate provision for the proper maintenance and support of a person for whom the deceased had a moral duty to provide. The first version of the legislation allowed only widows and children to claim; it underwent little reform until 1997 when a major amendment to the Administration and Probate Act 1958 (Vic) removed the statutory list of eligible applicants, and replaced it with the jurisdictional question, ‘Did the deceased have a responsibility to provide?’ This in theory means that ‘anyone’ can make a claim, including those without a close family relationship with the deceased. This article examines a selection of judgments handed down under the new provisions, with the aim of showing the range of applicants who are now eligible to apply and examining the particular features of their relationship with the deceased that determined the success of their claims. This is in light of the current Victorian Law Reform Commission Inquiry into Succession Law that questions whether eligibility should be limited to certain types of relationship, and whether costs should continue to be paid out of the estate.

Two Plains Cree Tales

1921 ◽  
Vol 34 (133) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
James A. Teit
Keyword(s):  
Plains Cree

Language Change, Variation, and Universals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W. Culicover
Keyword(s):  
Argument Structure ◽  
Language Change ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Plains Cree ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Parameter Theory ◽  
Grammatical Functions ◽  
The Way

This volume is about how human languages get to be the way they are, why they are different from one another in some ways and not others, and why they change in the ways that they do. Given that language is a universal creation of the human mind, the puzzle is why there are different languages at all, why we don’t all speak the same language. And while there is considerable variation, there are ways in which grammars show consistent patterns. The solution to these puzzles, the author proposes, is a constructional one. Grammars consist of constructions that carry out the function of expressing universal conceptual structure. While there are in principle many different ways of accomplishing this task, the constructions that languages actually use are under pressure to reduce complexity. The result is that there is constructional change in the direction of less complexity, and grammatical patterns emerge that reflect conceptual universals. The volume consists of three parts. Part I establishes the theoretical foundations: situating universals in conceptual structure, formally defining constructions, and characterizing constructional complexity. Part II explores variation in argument structure, grammatical functions, and A′ constructions, drawing on data from a variety of languages, including English and Plains Cree. Part III looks at constructional change, focusing primarily on English and German. The study ends with some observations and speculations on parameter theory, analogy, the origins of typological patterns, and Greenbergian ‘universals’.

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