Seri dictionary: Body parts, bodily processes, sickness and medicine

A subset of the Seri bilingual dictionary includes terms referring to body parts, bodily processes, sickness, and medicine. This version includes English glosses in addition to the Spanish glosses, and an English-to-Seri reversal. Other excerpts from the Seri dictionary have been published in the 1997, 1999 and 2000 Work Papers. The complete dictionary was published in 2005 and updated in 2010. The second edition is available here: mexico.sil.org/resources/archives/4282

Seri dictionary: Colors

A subset of the Seri bilingual dictionary includes terms referring to colors. This version includes English glosses in addition to Spanish glosses, and English-to-Seri and Spanish-to-Seri reversals. Other excerpts from the Seri dictionary have been published in the 1997, 1998 and 2000 Work Papers. The complete dictionary was published in 2005 and updated in 2010. The second edition is available here: mexico.sil.org/resources/archives/4282

Seri dictionary: Sounds and speech

The Seri language is rich in verbs and expressions for sounds and speech. This paper highlights this domain of the Seri lexicon and discusses sounds made by inanimate objects, animals, and humans. Other excerpts from the Seri dictionary have been published in the 1997, 1998 and 1999 Work Papers. The complete dictionary was published in 2005 and updated in 2010. The second edition is available here: mexico.sil.org/resources/archives/4282

Seri dictionary: Earth, sea, sky, time and weather

A subset of the Seri bilingual dictionary includes terms referring to the earth, sea, sky and weather. This version includes English glosses in addition to the Spanish glosses, and an English-to-Seri reversal. Other excerpts from the Seri dictionary have been published in the 1997, 1999 and 2000 Work Papers. The complete dictionary was published in 2005 and updated in 2010. The second edition is available here: mexico.sil.org/resources/archives/4282

Seri dictionary: Mammals

A subset of the Seri bilingual dictionary includes terms referring to mammals. This version includes English glosses in addition to the Spanish glosses, and an English-to-Seri reversal. In addition, extensive footnotes are included which provide information from Edward Moser\u27s field notes relating to the Seri knowledge of mammals. Other excerpts from the Seri dictionary have been published in the 1997, 1999 and 2000 Work Papers. The complete dictionary was published in 2005 and updated in 2010. The second edition is available here: mexico.sil.org/resources/archives/4282

Seri dictionary: Plants

A subset of the Seri bilingual dictionary includes terms referring to plants. This version includes English glosses in addition to Spanish glosses, and English-to-Seri and Spanish-to-Seri reversals. Other excerpts from the Seri dictionary have been published in the 1997, 1998 and 2000 Work Papers. The complete dictionary was published in 2005 and updated in 2010. The second edition is available here: mexico.sil.org/resources/archives/4282

Seri kinship terminology

From the introduction: The Seri language contains over fifty kinship terms, and as such represents one of the most highly elaborated kinship systems described to date. A list of these terms was given in Kroeber 1931, although Kroeber\u27s list was (understandably) incorrect in certain ways. Our discussion of the Seri kinship terminology centers around, but is not limited to, the set of obligatorily possessed noun stems which are inflected with the following possessive prefixes. [...] This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 we discuss various kinds of terms which, although used to refer to kinsmen, are special in that they are either unpossessed nouns or nouns derived from verbs. They are not kinship terms insofar as word class is concerned. In Section 3 we present the basic kinship terms and their extended meanings; no detailed analysis is given. In Section 4 we present the terminology used for deceased persons

Polar Questions in Seri

Polar questions in Seri are always expressed using an interrogative sentence type which, for such questions, is morphologically distinct, but not syntactically distinct, from declarative sentences. Other facts about polar questions in Seri are described and illustrated as well. (Some of the utterances are linked to sound files and require the Adobe Quicktime plug-in to be installed; this plug-in is normally installed with Acrobat Reader by default.