Deep Background: an English Dictionary of the Tamil Verb

Harold F. Schiffman
University of Pennsylvania

• A brief history of Tamil Dictionaries
• Attempts to rectify above shortcomings
• Lexicographic Criteria and Methodology.
• Sources of data
• The problem of standardization of Spoken Tamil.
  • Transliteration.
• Transitivity and Verb Classes.
  • Classification of the Tamil Verb.
    • Dr. Graul's Verb classes.
  • Transitivity.
    • Transitive Absolutes
    • Dative Subjects
• Computerization
• Basis of lexicographical judgement.
• Search of secondary literature
• Data Base Maintenance.
• References
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