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From: "Bill Jancewicz" <bill_jancewicz at sil.org>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 5:41 AM
Subject: [Lexicog] Getting to know you


> Greetings!
>
> My name is Bill Jancewicz. I have been working in the Naskapi (Canadian
> Algonquian) language with SIL since 1988, located near Schefferville,
> Quebec. I assisted in the completion of the (trilingual) Naskapi Lexicon,
> published in 1994, and in revision since then. Over the past couple years,
I
> have worked in cooperation with the National Library of Canada's Digital
> Archive in a pilot project to publish the Naskapi Lexicon to the Web in a
> searchable database using Unicode. www.nlc-bnc.ca/naskapi
>
> I have also been serving as technical and linguistic consultant to the
James
> Bay Cree dictionary project, due to publish the first revision of the 1987
> edition in 2004. This project has been largely accomplished by Cree
speakers
> themselves, who have received training to maintain their lexicon in
Shoebox.
> Indigenous ownership and control has been a hallmark of the James Bay Cree
> dictionary project for the past decade.
>
> I continue to assist linguists involved in Canadian Algonquian languages
in
> technical issues regarding computers and dictionaries, including work on
> compiling electronic versions of Montagnais, Mi'gmaq, Labrador Innu,
> Atikamekw, Swampy (Fort Severn) Cree, Plains Cree, and Proto-Algonquian. I
> tend to be involved in more practical aspects of dictionary work (for a
> broad audience, teachers and Native speakers) rather than theoretical
> studies of lexical relations.
>
> Glad to be a part of the group
>
> Bill Jancewicz
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