dictionary verb citations

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This is what the modified entries might look like:

First using unicode overbars:
        tēmōz. vt3. nicyehyecōz nitlapantīz / to look for s.t.
        temōz. vi1. niyāz cacatlani / to descend.

For those who canʻt read the overbars:
te:mo:z. vt3. nicyehyeco:z nitlapanti:z / to look for s.t.
temo:z. vi1. niya:z cacatlani / to descend.

Actually, in these examples the information denoted by "v", "i" and "t" 
is implicit in the headword form and the definitons.
John

On Feb 15, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Frances Karttunen wrote:

>> My questions is, why didn't Molina and his successors use this as the
>> dictionary headword form?
>
> One reason is that one can form the future from the present by regular
> rules, but future forms are ambiguous. Since the final vowel is dropped
> from Class 2 and 3 (b and c) verbs in the future, one can hypothesize
> more than one possible stem for a verb that ends in iz or oz. Leaving
> aside contrastive vowel length for a moment, is temoz from invariant
> temo or from temoa?  Is yoliz form yoli or yolia?
>
> Fran
>
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