Dictionary of the Crow Language

This is a Crow-English dictionary with an English-Crow reference key. It contains over 500 distinct entries, each with its person and plural fo~s when these are irregular, part-of-speech designation, English translation with additional notes on its meaning, analysis and additional notes, and finally sentences that illustrate their use. The entries were chosen purposefully in order to illustrate all of the various word classes, types of selectional restrictions, types of irregularities, all of the affixes, and special idiomatic uses of various .stems. The dictionary proper is preceded by several sections covering various aspects of the phonology and morphology of the language. OrthographyPhonology gives an outline of the basic phonemic structure and the way in which the sounds are represented in the spelling system, and this is followed by a statement of the Alphabetical Order according to which the dictionary entries are listed. The section on Plurals presents a set of conjunctively ordered rules reminiscent of some that appear in the phonology of the language which derive the spelling of the regular plural form of a stem given the spelling of the singular. The next section, Person prefixes, deals with the forms of the prefixes which are added to the verb and which refer to and agree with the subject and the objects of the sentence. The section on Possession discusses alienable and inalienable possession, and the form of the prefixes, which agree in person with the possessor, that are added to the possessed noun. In each of these sections there is also a discussion of the important types of irregularities that occur, as well as an indication of how word-class membership and irregularities are indicated in the dictionary proper. Thesis supervisor: G. Hubert Matthews Title: Professor of Linguistics