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This lexicon includes both the known primary morphemes of the Taíno language—free bases and af¤xes—as well as the majority of single and multimorphemic words which appear in written form in the sixteenth-century Spanish sources, with the exception of toponyms and the names of a large number of unidenti¤ed, and unidenti¤able, plants. Completion of the analysis of the several thousand attested Taíno toponyms and plant names, a monumental project yet in progress, will undoubtedly add further base morphemes to our inventory as well as the individual place and plant names themselves. Despite this, it is presently possible to provide a list of certainly 98 percent or more of the known primary base morphemes of the language and all of the af¤x morphemes which have survived in the attested data. They are given in the following table in both reconstituted phonetic form and in their orthography from the original sources. Where possible, cognate forms from other Arawakan languages, primarily Island Carib/Kalíphuna and Lokono, have been added (in their recorded orthographies rather than a phonetic or phonemic transcription). If we have a cognate Goajiro form, that is included (with the abbreviation G), and, where possible, Proto-Maipuran (PM*, after Wise, in Payne1990) and Proto-Arawakan, Proto-Piro-Apuriná, Proto-Harakbut, ProtoShani , and Proto-Asháninka cognates (after Matteson 1972) have also been added in the Other Forms column (with the abbreviations PM*, PA*, PP-Ap*, PHk*, PSh*, and PAsh*, respectively). The lack of a cognate form does not mean that there is none; rather, it re®ects the extremely uneven data and¤eld-work—in amount and reliability—available from Northern Maipuran languages, despite the considerable publication in that ¤eld over the past several decades. Af¤xes and bases have been given in two separate lists, and af¤xes have been further separated into pre¤xes, in¤xes, and suf¤xes. Base forms which do not appear alone, but are found only in combination with pre¤xes and/or suf¤xes, 10 A Short Lexicon of Taíno Morphemes and Lexical Forms are indicated by a preceding and/or following dash in the list of bases. Both pre¤xes and suf¤xes have been further differentiated according to whether they are designative, derivational, or in®ectional. While such a list of morphemes can hardly constitute a dictionary, a two-way listing, Taíno-English and English-Taíno, has been provided in the event the latter might be of use to other researchers. Continued on the next page Taíno Lexicon / 101 Continued on the next page Continued on the next page Continued on the next page Continued on the next page Continued on the next page Continued on the next page Continued on the next page Continued on the next page Continued on the next page Continued on the next page 122 / Chapter 10 ...

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