[Lexicog] Re: Citation forms in Prefixing Languages

[William Poser]

Mike Maxwell suggested that I refere those interested to a paper
of mine on "Making Athabaskan Dictionaries Usable".
It was published in 2003 in the Proceedings of the Athabaskan
Languages Conference - 2002 by the Alaska Native Language Center,
which would
probably be thrilled to sell some more of the volume, but it can also
be downloaded from the download page of my web site:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wjposer/papers.html. A direct link
to the paper is:
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wjposer/cgi-bin/load.cgi
?http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~wjposer/.download
s/makath.pdf

One point I make there is that, it seems to me, prefixing per se
isn't a problem. If you've got a purely prefixing language,
alphabetizing from the end of the word will group related forms
nicely. My experience using reverse dictionaries suggests that it
isn't hard to look things up this way though it takes a little
time to get used to it.




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