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arxpub.com>Title: The Interactive ALR Subtitle: An Online, Interactive Database of Historic Native American Vocabularies and Word Lists Series Title: Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: Evolution Publishing http://www.evolpub.com Book URL: http://www.evolpub.com/interactiveALR/home.html Editor:Claudio R. Salvucci Abstract: The Interactive ALR is a powerful online resource for the comparative study of Native American languages. Built from the ever-expanding catalog of our American Language Reprint (ALR) series, The Interactive ALR puts a growing 10,000 word linguistic database and powerful search capabilities into the hands of scholars, allowing for comparison of dozens of historical vocabularies in the blink of an eye. Representing 400 years of linguistic data, and over two dozen languages scattered throughout more than 50 different documents, the database brings together a collection of information that has never before been so readily accessible in either book or electronic form. Evolution will be beta-testing this database during December 2003 and most functions will be freely available, including: * Enhanced word search allowing the user to search for words, phrases and letter patterns in native entries as well as their English translations. * An Interactive Linguistic Atlas, plotting native words on the user's choice of seven printable maps. * Ability to restrict searches by date and linguistic family. * Custom Lexicon generation for combining and comparing vocabularies in either dictionary or table format. * Unlimited access to full-text versions of the entire ALR series (currently 30 volumes) in printable PDF format. * Selected scans of the original sources of linguistic data * First access to newly added data which will be uploaded to the database before it appears in book form. * Supplemental data and word-lists that do not appear in the book series. Interested scholars are encouraged to experiment with the database during the beta-testing period. For more information, visit: http://www.evolpub.com/interactiveALR/home.html After December 31, 2003, the full functionality of the database will be available via subscription. A special reduced rate is available to members of SSILA. Lingfield(s): Anthropological Linguistics General Linguistics Historical Linguistics Lexicography Subject Language(s): Catawba(Language code: CHC) Cayuga (Language code: CAY) Etchemin (Language code: ETC) Laurentian (Language code: LRE) Miami (Language code: MIA) Mohawk (Language code: MOH) Mohegan-montauk-narragansett (Languagecode: MOF) Munsee (Language code: UMU) Nanticoke (Language code: NNT) Oneida (Language code: ONE) Onondaga (Language code: ONO) Powhata (Language code: PIM) Seneca (Language code: SEE) Shawnee (Language code: SJW) Susquehannock (Language code: SQN) Tuscarora (Language code: TUS) Tutelo (Language code: TTA) Unami (Language code: DEL) Wampanoag (Language code: WAM) Woccon (Language code: XWC) Wyandot (Language code: WYA) Language Family(ies): Algonquian Central Algonquian Eastern Algonquian Iroquoian Northern Iroquoian Siouan Southern Iroquoian Unclassified Algonquian Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=8285.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue