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Article: Citing verbs in polysynthetic languages: the case of the Cherokee-English dictionary.(Report)
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- Southwest Journal of Linguistics
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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ABSTRACT. This article represents an additional contribution to the steadily growing body of work that addresses the problems faced in creating dictionaries for Native American languages. In his 1975 Cherokee-English dictionary, Feeling cites verbs in the third-person singular conjugated forms. Cherokee is a polysynthetic language in which all verbs are bound roots; accordingly, bare verbal stems do not surface for speakers. Today's potential audience differs from the 1975 audience in a number of ways, however, which render the choice to use conjugated forms less appealing. This paper asserts that listing verbs by their unprefixed stems is a linguistically sound ...
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