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Taanshi, hello!<br><br>What a great post! I really wanted to know similar info but just never asked. Thank-you both for posting to the list!<br><br>Here is an additional question for Ron Moe (and/or any others who would like to respond), if you were to list some of the top online dictionaries for minority languages, what would they be? I am especially interested if there are any good models that are not only sound from a linguistic and archival perspective but also for community participation in creation and end use. <br>
<br>If this is a touchy subject for any reason, please feel free to contact me in a private email. Thanks!<br><br>Eekoshi pitamaa. That is it for now!<br>Heather<br>Metis, emerging Michif-speaker, Community Linguist and Grad Student <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Ronald Moe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ron_moe@sil.org">ron_moe@sil.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Dear "Newbie"</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">As far as I know there are no online
classes in lexicography. I teach lexicography workshops and have a full set of
PowerPoint presentations to go with each lecture. The problem is that there is
no script to go with them. I am going to be working over the next few
weeks/months to write out the script for each lecture. I could send them to you
as I complete them.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">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. Lexicography draws on
all of the sub-fields of linguistics. You should concentrate on semantics and
anything you can get on corpus studies.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">The other thing you can do is to read
books on lexicography. I would start with the following:</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Atkins, B. T. Sue, and Michael Rundell. 2008.
The Oxford
guide to practical lexicography. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Fontenelle, Thierry. 2008. Practical
lexicography: a reader. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Goddard, Cliff. 1998. Semantic analysis: a
practical introduction. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">If you are interested in minority
languages, you will also need a slightly different perspective. A good
perspective would be:</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Newell, Leonard E. 1995. Handbook on
lexicography for Philippine and other languages. Manila:
Linguistic Society of the Philippines.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">The last thing I would recommend is that
you start investigating words. There are online text corpuses (or more properly
corpora) such as:</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;"><a href="http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.collins.co.uk/Corpus/CorpusSearch.aspx</a></span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Perhaps someone else could recommend a
better site.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="blue" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Ron Moe</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hello! I'm a new member of the group and I have a few
questions about <br>
lexicography. I'm very interested in working as a lexicographer but I <br>
have no idea how to get started. It helps that I live in the same city <br>
where Merriam-Webster is based, but I have some general questions that <br>
I hope someone can help me out with.<br>
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What are the general education requirements for a lexicographer? I have <br>
my Bachelor's in English, and also a teaching degree.<br>
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Also, are there any good online classes in lexicography? There aren't <br>
any available at the school I go to.<br>
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