00000nam##2200000za#4500 9.610397 CaOODSP 20250319160241 ta 150406|1993||||xxc||||| f|0| 0 eng|d 0-660-14011-X 0316-1862 CaOODSP eng n-cn--- NM95-21/125E Canada. National Museums of Canada. Canadian Museum of Civilization. A computer-generated dictionary of proto-Algonquian / by John Hewson. Gatineau - Quebec : National Museums of Canada. 1993. ix, 281p. : references, index ; 24 cm. Canadian Ethnology Service paper 0316-1862 No. 125 "This proto-language dictionary, which contains 4,066 entries and an extensive index of English glosses, represents an interesting development in proto-language reconstruction technology, having been done entirely on computer. The input data consisted of some 30,000 lexical items from the four conservative Algonquian languages used by Leonard Bloomfield to reconstruct the sound system of Proto-Algonquian. Computer programmes were used to find cognates, and to reconstruct and build the final dictionary."--Abstract. Also part of: Mercury series (ISSN 0316-1854). This proto-language dictionary, which contains 4,066 entries and an extensive index of English glosses, represents an interesting development in proto-language reconstruction technology, having been done entirely on computer. The input data consisted of some 30,000 lexical items from the four conservative Algonquian languages used by Leonard Bloomfield to reconstruct the sound system of Proto-Algonquian. Computer programmes were used to find cognates, and to reconstruct and build the final dictionary.--Abstract Résumé en français. Softcover Indigenous languages gcpds Hewson, John A computer-generated dictionary of proto-Algonquian / (CaOODSP)9.556947 Canadian Ethnology Service paper, 0316-1862 No. 125 (CaOODSP)9.509552