[Lexicog] Re: Citation forms in Prefixing Languages

[Koontz John E]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Ron Moe wrote:
> ... The language also has infixes (-in-, -em-/-um-, -in-em-/-in-um-)
> that follow the initial consonant. There are also two prefixes (m-,
> min-) that delete an initial bilabial. So if you encounter 'minadag' you
> would have to look under 'adag' 'padag' 'badag' and 'madag', hoping that
> one of them was the word you were looking for. If you wanted to find
> 'manadag', you might find it under 'adag' 'tadag' 'dadag' 'nadag' or
> 'sadag'. And that's assuming you were familiar enough with the language
> to even know where to look, and analytical enough to recognize potential
> prefixes and figure out what they might be hiding. Mercy! It was no good
> trying to cross reference.

I gather that because of the difficulty of parsing apart the prefixes
and remaining stem it would not have worked to just list all under -adag
following the "folded KWIC" approach?  Given manadag, look under -adag,
man- and it lists and sadag, tadag, etc., possibilities there?





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