Dictionaries of agglutinating languages
From: | Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...> |
Date: | Monday, October 2, 2000, 5:31 |
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.
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