New Online Database of Historic Native American Vocabularies

Tony Schiavo EvolPub at AOL.COM
Thu Dec 4 13:41:04 UTC 2003


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Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce that our enhanced Interactive ALR
web site is now up and running.

The Interactive ALR is a powerful online resource for the comparative study
of Native American languages. Built from the ever-expanding catalog of our
American Language Reprint (ALR) series, The Interactive ALR puts a growing
 10,000
word linguistic database and powerful search capabilities into the hands of
scholars, allowing for instant comparison of dozens of historical vocabularies.
Representing 400 years of linguistic data, and over two dozen languages
scattered throughout more than 50 different documents, the database brings
 together
a collection of information that has never before been so readily accessible
in either book or electronic form.

Evolution will be beta-testing this database during December 2003 and most
functions are freely available, including:

*   Enhanced word search allowing the user to search for words, phrases and
letter patterns in native entries as well as their English translations.

*   An Interactive Linguistic Atlas, plotting native words on the user's
choice of seven printable maps.

*   Ability to restrict searches by date and linguistic family.

*   Custom Lexicon generation for combining and comparing vocabularies in
either dictionary or table format. This function will have limited accessibility
during testing.

*   Unlimited access to full-text versions of the entire ALR series
(currently 30 volumes) in printable PDF format. This function will not be
 available
during testing.

*   Selected scans of the original sources of linguistic data

*   First access to newly added data which will be uploaded to the database
before it appears in book form.

*   Supplemental data and word-lists that do not appear in the book series.

Interested scholars are encouraged to experiment with the database during the
beta-testing period. For more information, visit:
http://www.evolpub.com/interactiveALR/home.html

After December 31, 2003, the full functionality of the database will be
available via subscription. Special reduced rates are available to recognized
tribal institutions and members of SSILA.



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