Description:
The first dictionary of the Tuscarora language ever published, containing some 4, 000 main entries for particles, roots, and stems, which are illustrated by more than 20, 000 Tuscarora words.
Brief description: Blair A. Rudes taught in the Department of Anthropology at the American University in Washington, D.C. He died in 2008.
Review Quotes:
"This monumental work seems destined to become the authoritative source on the Tuscarora lexicon and morpheme inventory, and should definitely be acquired by any scholar or library interested in Iroquoian linguistics or cultural heritage."
--Edward J. Vajda, Canadian Journal of Linguistics"Rudes's monumental Tuscarora dictionary is now the most voluminous lexical resource available in print for any Northern Iroquioan language. Both user-friendly and meticulous, it should be of interest especially to Tuscaroras, linguists, and Iroquoianists also for the cultural information that it contains."
--European Review of Native American Studies"An important work of very extensive scholarship... there is a great deal of data here of many types."
--Clifford Abbott, Anthropological Linguistics