This contribution,1 based on an examination of several Tamil dictionaries and Tamil grammars, composed in Portuguese and in Latin, by missionaries who were in Tamil Nadu during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, examines the lemmatization strategies which they followed, while dealing with Tamil verbal morphology. If nominal forms were not really a problem, verbal forms were more difficult to cope with. This is why for instance Proenca’s dictionary is very far from being completely lemmatized, and many of the forms which modern lexicographers would consider as falling under the same head, are listed as separate entries, and given separate translations. The complexity of the morphology was progressively mastered by grammarians, using labels taken from Portuguese or Latin terminology, although they did not always agree between themselves, concerning for instance what should be called infinitivus, some of them introducing new labels such as infinitivus substantivus and infinitivus absolutus. The most difficult nut to crack, however, was probably the existence of diathetic pairs, consisting of two paired verbs, which some modern linguists have referred to as ‘affective’ and ‘effective’, additionally accompanied by some causatives.

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从语法到字典。通过用于拉丁语和葡萄牙语的类别将泰米尔语动词形式进行词形还原的早期挑战

这篇文章 1 基于对 16、17 和 18 世纪在泰米尔纳德邦的传教士用葡萄牙语和拉丁语编写的几本泰米尔语词典和泰米尔语语法的检查，考察了他们在处理时遵循的词形还原策略泰米尔语语言形态。如果名义形式不是真正的问题，那么口头形式就更难处理了。这就是为什么例如 Proenca 的字典还远未完全归类化，并且现代词典编纂者认为属于同一类别的许多形式被列为单独的条目，并给出单独的翻译。语法学家逐渐掌握了形态的复杂性，使用葡萄牙语或拉丁语术语中的标签，尽管他们之间并不总是一致，例如，关于应该称为无限的东西，其中一些引入了新的标签，例如无限的实体和无限的绝对。然而，最难破解的可能是素质对的存在，由两个成对的动词组成，一些现代语言学家将其称为“情感”和“有效”，另外还伴有一些使役。