[Lexicog] finding new words in polysynthetic languages

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From: "Mike Maxwell" <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 6:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] finding new words in polysynthetic languages


> --- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, "John Roberts"
> <dr_john_roberts at s...> wrote:
> > ...I used a "word generator" to produce possible words in the
> > language... A computer program matched consonants and vowels to
> > CV patterns and then printed out lists of possible words
>
> This method was also used to compile
>
>    Laughlin, Robert M. 1977. The Great Tzotzil
>    Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantan: Smithsonian
>    Contribs. to Anthropology, Volume 19. Smithsonian
>    Inst.
>
> The preface (intro?) describes in considerable detail the process,
> and is at the same time hilarious and instructive.
>
> (...and you thought lexicography was dull!)
>
>    Mike Maxwell
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