Book: AmerIndian lexicography

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Title: Making Dictionaries
Subtitle: Preserving Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: University of California Press
           http://www.ucpress.edu/

Book URL: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9489.html

Editor: William  Frawley
Editor: Kenneth  Hill
Editor: Pamela  Munro

Hardback: ISBN: 0520229959, Pages: 455, Price: $65.00  / GBP 45.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0520229967, Pages: 455, Price: $34.95 / GBP 24.95

Abstract:

Many indigenous American languages face imminent extinction, and the
dictionary, often the only written documentation of these languages,
stands as a powerful tool in preserving them. These essays, written by
leading scholars in Native American language studies, provide a
comprehensive picture of the theory and practice of Native American
lexicography. The contributors discuss the technical, social, and
personal challenges involved with the complex task of creating a
dictionary of a Native American language. The book is also the first
of its kind to address both standard and new issues surrounding the
challenging task of transforming oral languages in general into
written dictionaries. Making Dictionaries will be an invaluable source
for those involved with all aspects of documenting and understanding
endangered languages and for the increasing number of native
communities engaged in language reclamation and preservation efforts.

CONTENTS:

I. FORM AND MEANING IN THE DICTIONARY
1. Theoretical and Universal Implications of Certain Verbal Entries in
   Dictionaries of the Misumalpa Languages
   Ken Hale and Danilo Salamanca

2. Morphology in Cherokee Lexicography: The Cherokee-English
   Dictionary
   William Pulte and Durbin Feeling

3. Lexical Fuctions as a Heuristic for Huichol
   Joseph E. Grimes

4. Entries for Verbs in American Indian Language Lexicography
   Pamela Munro

5. Multiple Assertions, Grammatical Constructions, Lexical Pragmatics,
   and the Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottowa Dictionary
   Richard A. Rhodes

II. ROLE OF THE DICTIONARY IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
6. Issues of Standardization and Community in Aboriginal Language
   Lexicography
   Keren Rice and Leslie Saxon

7. A Dictionary for Whom? Tensions between Academic and Nonacademic
   Functions of Bilingual Dictionaries
   Leanne Hinton and William F. Weigel

8. Language Renewal and the Technologies of Literacy and Postliteracy:
   Reflections from Western Mono
   Paul V. Kroskrity

III. TECHNOLOGY AND DICTIONARY DESIGN
9. An Interactive Dictionary and Text Corpus for Sixteenth- and
   Seventeenth-Century
   Nahuatl Una Canger

10. What's in a Word? The Whys and What Fors of a Nahuatl Dictionary
    Jonathan D. Amith

11. The Comparative Siouan Dictionary
    David S. Rood and John E. Koontz

IV. SPECIFIC PROJECTS AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
12. Writing a Nez Perce Dictionary
    Haruo Aoki

13. On Publishing the Hopi Dictionary
    Kenneth C. Hill

14. Writing a User-Friendly Dictionary
    Catherine A. Callaghan

15. The NAPUS (Native American Placenames of the United States)
    Project: Principles and Problems
    William Bright

16. Alonso de Molina as Lexicographer
    Mary L. Clayton and R. Joe Campbell

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Lingfield(s):
Anthropological Linguistics,
Lexicography,
Sociolinguistics,

Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)