Root lists.

[ROOD DAVID S]

Bob, at one of the Siouan conferences -- seems like maybe with MidAmerica
in Stillwater or maybe Lawrence (?) Wes reported on that work, I think.
It went along with his conclusions about "root extensions", i.e. the idea
that the outside consonants in CCVC or CVCC roots are a very old layer of
derivational morphology.  If you have your conference handouts organized
in some way (I could probably find mine with a few hours of searching, but
I don't have time for that now) you might locate his handouts.

David

David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Linda A Cumberland wrote:

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> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, R. Rankin wrote:
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> > > Is that list still available somewhere?
> >
> > The nice thing about retrieving those files would be
> > the fact that we had culled through them and
> > eliminiated nouns, adverbs, etc. already, I think.
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> So I guess the next question is whether there is a hard copy somewhere?
> Regardless of John's assertion that "it's easy enough to repeat", "easy"
> is a relative term! And I'm not too likely to undertake such a thing.  and
> anyway, it sounds as though a great deal of work was done on the output,
> and by a team of people with lots more expertise than I have.
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> But thanks for the algorithm, John.  I'll show it to Wally Hooper (at
> the Institute) and see what he thinks.
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> Linda
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