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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=125263119-18102004></SPAN>T<SPAN
class=125263119-18102004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>hanks,
Mike,</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff><FONT face=Arial size=3>The reference is: </FONT>
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<P><FONT face=Arial>Bartholomew, Doris A., and Louise C. Schoenhals.
1983.<SPAN class=125263119-18102004> </SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Arial><I>Bilingual dictionaries for indigenous languages.</I> Mexico:
Summer Institute of Linguistics. </FONT></P>
<P><SPAN class=125263119-18102004><FONT face=Arial>Fritz
Goerling</FONT></SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR></FONT> </SPAN><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><TT>Fritz Goerling wrote:<BR>> I wonder what a good, useful
bilingual dictionary should include<BR>> when it comes to illustrative
sentences. What is too much and what<BR>> is too little? <BR><BR>IIRC,
there was some discussion of this topic in this list awhile <BR>back--you
might check the archives, although I don't think it explicitly <BR>touched on
the question of grammar vs. dictionary.<BR><BR>To my mind, one of the most
useful discussions of example sentences is <BR>in the Bartholomew/ Schoenhalls
book on bilingual dictionaries that <BR>SIL(?) published a couple decades
ago. Things like that don't change <BR>over time (although of course an
electonic dictionary connected to a <BR>concordance generator and a large
corpus would change what's <BR>possible--but not, perhaps, the usefulness of
having an expert <BR>pre-select and arrange the best "hits").<BR>--
<BR> Mike
Maxwell<BR> Linguistic Data
Consortium<BR>
maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu<BR><BR></TT><BR>
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