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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2>Good morning, Mery. It is probably after
lunch where you are.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2>I have not approached dictionary formation
from a theoretical perspective and those who do can provide some help for you
from their perspective. My experience has been to use texts and recorded
dialogues to find new words. The Shoebox grammar program used to work very well
at that: it would prompt you to identify any unrecognized morpheme and
parse any unrecognized combination of morphemes. That assured that everything
was accounted for.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2>The Swadesh-Rowe list is a basic starter
as well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2>Best wishes,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Book Antiqua" size=2>Chaz Mortensen</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=mmyit@yahoo.it href="mailto:mmyit@yahoo.it">Mery Martinelli</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com
href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:23
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Lexicog] How to select words
for a bilingual dictionary</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear all,</DIV>
<DIV>in my MA thesis on bilingual lexicography I am describing the ways in
which dictionary words can be selected. I know that it depends on the variety
of language treated in the dictionary. Imagine that you had to select form
your own language the words to treat in a big general language bilingual
dictionary and those for a pocket one, how would you do it?</DIV>
<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Mery Martinelli</DIV>
<DIV>SSLMIT, Bologna (Italy)<BR></DIV>
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