[Lexicog] Re: Citation forms in Prefixing Languages

[Koontz John E]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Ron Moe wrote:
> ... One of my colleagues in another Philippine language worked with a
> room full of mother tongue high school students to teach them how to
> find words in the dictionary. After a week only one could, and he could
> only do it with partial success.

This calls to mind trying to find entries in a Classical Greek lexicon
starting with an inflected irregular non-present stem form from text,
though at least student versions sometimes list the first person of common
irregular stems.




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