[Lexicog] finding new words in polysynthetic languages

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From: "Koontz John E" <john.koontz at colorado.edu>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] finding new words in polysynthetic languages


> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, John Roberts wrote:
> > As well collecting words from texts and exploring semantic domains, when
I
> > was working with the Amele people (PNG) in the 1970s I used a "word
> > generator" to produce possible words in the language.
>
> The Rev. James O. Dorsey (d. c. 1896, as I recall correctly), who worked
> with the Siouan languages for the Bureau of American Ethnology, has a
> manuscript summarizing an approach like this for Omaha-Ponca, combining
> canonical analysis of roots with an analysis of the morphosyntax of
> derivation.  I think there is some evidence he actually used this in
> accumulating his Omaha-Ponca slip file, which is unpublished and estimated
> to contain c. 20K slips.
>
>
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