[Lexicog] deciding on the citation form

[Jim & Cindi Farr]

In addition to Bartholomew and Schoenhals, Len Newell from the Philippines 
has also written a Handbook on Lexicography. Here are two URL's on the web 
where you can find information for ordering his handbook.

Newell, Leonard E. 1995 Handbook on lexicography for Philippine and other 
languages  URL:http://www.ethnologue.com/show_work.asp?id=40157

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Newell 1995
      Citation Newell, Leonard E. 1995. Handbook on lexicography for 
Philippine and other languages. Linguistic Society of the Philippines, 
Special Monograph Issue, 36. Manila: Linguistic Society of the Philippines. 
x, 368 p.
      Author  Newell, Leonard E.

      Serial Linguistic Society of the Philippines Special Monograph Issue 
[indexed serial name]

      Subject  Lexicography

      Country  Philippines

      Entry number 40157



Here is a bit of a testimonial from our experience. If you're helping an 
ethnic group to compile their own dictionary, the wishes of the group should 
certainly be used as one of the criteria.

For the Korafe in Papua New Guinea, we wanted to use the immediate 
imperative form which is itself just the stem, the short (perfective??) 
stem, not the longer (imperfective??) stem.

But the Korafe talk about their verbs, using the infinitive (deverbal) form, 
so they felt more comfortable using that form as the citation form, so we've 
ended up using the deverbal form.

However, there are three structural types of verbs, those with the short 
stem vs1 terminating in i, those terminating in e and those terminating in 
u. The infinitive (always terminating in -ari) masks these differences, so 
we've included in the TOOLBOX program two paradigm codes: paradigm label 
\pdl : vs1 and vs2, and then paradigm verb form  \pdv : a form for each 
verb.

Cindi Farr

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