Ebook: Comparative Siouan Dictionary

Сравнительный словарь языков сиу
Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. 2015, 1128 p.
This dictionary is a work in progress. It will probably always be a work in progress. However, it represents a vast amount of time and effort by a large number of people, and all of us agree that it should be made available to other interested people now. While the original data set will be preserved in the form in which the editors, especially Rankin, left it and cannot be changed, there is a way for you to make additions by leaving comments and your thoughts via our commenting feature. Of course we also encourage you to mine it for information which should be double checked before it is utilized. The attached paper (Rankin et al. 1998) summarizes many of the conclusions about proto-Siouan to which the work on the dictionary has led us.The project which culminates in this work dates to a workshop at the University of Colorado in 1984. A fairly thorough history, including comments on the continuously evolving technological tools, can be found in Rood and Koontz (2002). The primary compiler/analysts were Robert L. Rankin, Richard T. Carter, A. Wesley Jones, John E. Koontz and David S. Rood. Additional data were provided by Jimm Good Tracks, Kenneth Miner, Carolyn Quintero and Kathleen Shea. Since 2011, Iren Hartmann and the computer staff at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have been working to create this web-based version. The main programmers on the project were Robert Forkel and Hans-Jörg Bibiko. Financial support for the 1984 workshop came from NSF (BNS 8406236) and NEH (RD 20477-84). Financial support for the dictionary came from NEH (RT-21062-84; RT-21238-91). The second NEH grant included an offer to match funds we raised elsewhere, and such funds were received from the American Philosophical Society and the University of Colorado.Because this has been a team effort, there are many inconsistencies. Because it has been developing for so many years, there are features that we no longer understand and abbreviations we no longer remember. Iren Hartmann and her colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have devoted many hours and considerable effort to cleaning out the inconsistencies and typing up loose ends, as well as to the design and functioning of the web site itself. The entire Siouanist community and the other linguists on the project owe Iren a huge debt of gratitude. Even so, there will be plenty of things for readers and users to comment on.