Reviused Address for Dryer's OP Concordances
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Mon Apr 29 02:11:51 UTC 2002
Siouanists interested in consulting the concordances Matthew Dryver made
for Ardis Eschenberg from the Siouan Archives Dorsey texts should now see:
http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/omaha.conc.sit
.../omaha.conc.rev.sit
.../omaha.conc.engl.sit
His description:
>Concordances of Dorsey's Omaha Texts
>
>These concordances are meant to be looked at on one's computer screen.
>They are far too long to print out. (If you tried, they would be over
>20,000 pages.)
>
>There are three concordances, the main one (Omaha, alphabetical), the
>reverse Omaha one, and the English-based one. Each concordance contains
>20 or more documents, one for each letter. Each concordance also
contains
>an additional document with the suffix "list" (before the .rtf suffix)
>which is a list of all the words in the order they occur in that
>concordance and their frequency in the Dorsey texts.
>
>They are all RTF documents. Except for the list documents, they must be
>opened from within Microsoft Word on a Mac. I don't know if this is also
>necessary in Windows. The choice of nonstandard characters is based on
>what seems to work in Windows (the accent mark does not come out right on
>a Mac). A tilde using its own space is used for the nasalization symbol.
>
>There are three StuffIt documents, one for each of the three
concourdance.
>Each will expland into a folder containing the 20 or more documents
making
>up that concordance. Each of the three StuffIt documents is about 4MB.
>When unstuffed, these three concordances require a total of about 80MB of
>hard disk space.
>
>The three concordances are at the following URL's:
Where to get StuffIt, a program that can handle sit archives:
> You can get a StuffIt unstuffer for dealing with the concordance SIT
> archives at http://www.stuffit.com/expander/index.html. Do a custom
> install and only install the expander. Don't let it handle files with
> other extensions unless you want to use it instead of whatever
> unzippers, etc., you already use.
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