[Lexicog] Newbie

[J.L. DeLucca]

Ein,
 
Do you will find it here: http://www.let.rug.nl/clin/accepted.php/paper14.htm

 
Best regards

J.L. De Lucca

--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Erin McKean <erin at logocracy.com> wrote:

From: Erin McKean <erin at logocracy.com>
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Newbie
To: jldlme at yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 11:56 AM

Dear Dr. De Lucca,

I am assuming from your message that your thesis is not in English, but
would you be able to send me a citation for it? It sounds fascinating.

Sincerely,

Erin
------------------------
Erin McKean
Dictionary Evangelist
http://www.dictionaryevangelist.com
erin at logocracy.com



J.L. DeLucca wrote:
> 
> 
> Mike et al.
>  
> I have started in lexicography with a Ph.D in general linguistics taking
> selected courses during six long years and working as reviewer and
> lexicographer. My first Ph.D thesis was about "statistical methods
> applied to lexicography" (I did before a bachelor degree in
economics).
>  
> After finishing my Ph.D. I have decided go to corpus linguistics and
> computational lexicography. Computational lexicography it is a hard way
> but very interesting especially together corpus linguistics. Now I am
> doing a research on "phraseology" from a NLP point-of-view.
>  
> Do you will have a large field for doing research and wroking,
> especially if you have the English as mother tongue -. My Achilles’
heel!
>  
> Best regards
>  
> J. L. De Lucca
>  
>  
> 
> --- On *Tue, 1/20/09, Mike Maxwell /<maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu>/* wrote:
> 
>     From: Mike Maxwell <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu>
>     Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Newbie
>     To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
>     Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 9:33 AM
> 
>     kozmikcallie wrote:
>     > ... I'm very interested in working as a lexicographer but I
>     > have no idea how to get started. It helps that I live in the same
city
> 
>     Ronald Moe wrote:
>     > The best background for a lexicographer is a degree in
>     linguistics. You
>     > would need a good all-round program with courses in phonetics,
>     > phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse grammar,
socio-linguistics,
>     > historical linguistics, and semantics.
> 
>     I would mostly defer to Ron, who knows a lot more about lexicography
>     than I ever will. However, I would also say that a lot depends on what
>     kind of lexicography you want to do, for what purpose, and in what
>     languages. If you want to work on English for popular dictionaries,
for
>     example, that's one thing (and, I would think, a pretty filled-up
>     field). If you want to work on literate languages which are spoken by
>     sizable minorities in certain countries, such as Catalan in Europe or
>     perhaps Telegu in India, then that's a different question. Or if
you
>     want to work on endangered languages, or lexicography for
computational
>     purposes, those are still different.
> 
>     General linguistics is probably a good start for any of these (along
>     with computational linguistics) , but the emphasis within linguistics
>     would--I think--vary widely.
> 
>     Mike Maxwell
> 
> 
> 




      
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