Re: Dictionaries of agglutinating languages

Adrian Morgan wrote:
>
> Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> > I haven't seen any dictionaries of any languages of a similar nature to
> > yours, but my idea is to only put in words the meaning of which can't be
> > derived easily by the root & the affixes; or perhaps you could only
> > include the words using uncommon affixes.
>
> Well, quite. The problem is in defining 'derived easily' and 'common'.
> These qualities /can't/ be defined except as one end of a very fuzzy
> and subjective continuum -- but to compile a dictionary I have to be
> definitive.
Very true. Another idea: Provided all these affixes are regular in how
they alter the meaning of the root, just put the root words in the
dictionary, and have an appendix at the end with a table of all the
affixes.

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Robert