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Seneca Morphology and Dictionary
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Language Name
Seneca.
Alternate Language Names
Onödowáʼga:ʼ, Onödowáʼga:
Region
Ontario, Canada; New York, United States.
Who
Wallace L. Chafe (Author).
Others Involved
U.S. Government Printing Office (Printing); Smithsonian Institution Press (Publisher); Solon Jones, Leroy Button, Lena P. Snow, Tessie Snow, Edward Curry, Corbett Sundown, Betsy Carpenter (Speakers); William N. Fenton, Floyd G. Lounsbury, Smithsonian Institution, Yale University, New York State Museum and Science Service (Guidance for fieldwork); Smithsonian Institution, University of California, Karlena Glemser, Myra Rothenberg (Support for manuscript).
Publishing Information
Published 1967 by the Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, United States.
How People are Cited
People are cited in the Introduction, except for the author who is cited on the cover.
How Information is Cited
The source of entries in this dictionary is cited in the Introduction and the Bibliography.
Where is Information Coming from
The information in this dictionary comes from speakers throughout fieldwork, in which the author encountered many Seneca words and texts such as formal speeches, legends, historical accounts, and conversations; this information is cited in the Introduction. The material for this dictionary was collected during a fieldwork over four summers between 1956-1959, on three reservations in New York.
This dictionary also uses previous works such as Internal reconstruction in Seneca (Chafe 1959), Iroquoian cosmology, first part (Hewitt 1903), and Oneida verb morphology (Lounsbury 1953); all of these works and more are cited in the Bibliography.
Tools and Framework used
This dictionary is available as a physical and digital book.
Access
The digital copy of this dictionary is open access through Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. The physical copy is accessible through libraries.
Included Languages and Directionality
The Dictionary section is in Seneca to English, while the English Index to the Dictionary has all the English terms numbered, which correspond to the Dictionary.
Dialects Included
No dialect is specified for this dictionary. However, the speakers who provided their expertise come from the Cattaraugus Reservation, the Allegany Reservation, and the Tonawanda Reservation, in New York.
Type of Dictionary
This is a bilingual, bidirectional dictionary.
How are Entries Organised
The Dictionary section is organized alphabetically by Seneca. The entries in the Dictionary section include the headword in Seneca, part of speech information, the English translation. Some entries also include example sentences. All entries are numbered.
The English Index to the Dictionary is organized alphabetically by English, and each entry contains the English headword and the corresponding number of the entry in the Dictionary section. No other information is included in entries in the Index.
Before the Dictionary section, there is a large section on the Morphology of Seneca which starts on page 5 and ends on page 35. This section includes sub-sections such as Phonemes, The progressive, and Idiolect variants.
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
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| Guide to use and understand | ✅ | Both the Introduction and Morphology help to understand the dictionary |
| Audio | ❌ | |
| Images | ❌ | |
| Example phrases | ✅ | However, not all entries include example phrases |
| Speakers marked | ✅ | They are cited in the Introduction |
| Dialects marked | ❌ |
External Links
Reference Seneca Morphology and Dictionary through WorldCat:https://search.worldcat.org/title/965155235
Open access digital copy of Seneca Morphology and Dictionary through Smithsonian Libraries and Archives: https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/1323