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Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes
Third Edition

Donald G. Frantz (Author), Norma Jean Russell (Author)

9781487500849

Hardback, published 15 March 2017

528 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 0.88 kg

‘The thought and care that have gone into the definitions are everywhere apparent; of necessity economical, they are always lucid. … The result is an admirable example of lexicography.’

- Richard W. Parker (Canadian Book Review Annual)

`This dictionary, the first to be published in over 50 years, is a milestone.’

- B.R. Johnson (Choice)

`It is therefore a real pleasure to welcome the appearance of this dictionary, produced by a team with both technical expertise in linguistics and dictionary making and excellent competence in the Blackfoot language.’

- Allan R. Taylor (American Indian Culture and Research Journal)

`A major contribution to Algonquian lexicography, a most welcome addition to the literature...It should have an honoured place on the bookshelf of everyone interested in the Western Algonquian languages.’

- Paul Proulx (Canadian Journal of Linguistics)

The Blackfoot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken by thousands in Alberta and Montana. This third edition of the critically acclaimed dictionary adds more than 1,100 new entries, major additions to verb stems, and the inclusion of vai, vii, vta, and viti syntactic categories. It contains more than 5,500 Blackfoot-English entries and an English index of more than 6,000 entries, and provides thorough coverage of cultural terms. The transcription uses an official, technically accurate alphabet and the authors have classified entries and selected examples based on more than 46 years of research.

How to Use This Dictionary

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Introduction

Blackfoot-English Dictionary

English Index

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