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<DIV>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). </DIV>
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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>Do you will have a large field for doing research and wroking, especially if you have the English as mother tongue -. My Achilles¢ heel!</DIV>
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<DIV>Best regards</DIV>
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<DIV>J. L. De Lucca<BR> <BR> <BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 1/20/09, Mike Maxwell <I><maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Mike Maxwell <maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu><BR>Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Newbie<BR>To: lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<BR>Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 9:33 AM<BR><BR>
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<DIV>kozmikcallie wrote:<BR>> ... 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><BR>Ronald Moe wrote:<BR>> The best background for a lexicographer is a degree in linguistics. You <BR>> would need a good all-round program with courses in phonetics, <BR>> phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse grammar, socio-linguistics, <BR>> historical linguistics, and semantics. <BR><BR>I would mostly defer to Ron, who knows a lot more about lexicography <BR>than I ever will. However, I would also say that a lot depends on what <BR>kind of lexicography you want to do, for what purpose, and in what <BR>languages. If you want to work on English for popular dictionaries, for <BR>example, that's one thing (and, I would think, a pretty filled-up <BR>field). If you want to work on literate languages which are spoken by <BR>sizable minorities in certain countries, such
as Catalan in Europe or <BR>perhaps Telegu in India, then that's a different question. Or if you <BR>want to work on endangered languages, or lexicography for computational <BR>purposes, those are still different.<BR><BR>General linguistics is probably a good start for any of these (along <BR>with computational linguistics) , but the emphasis within linguistics <BR>would--I think--vary widely.<BR><BR>Mike Maxwell<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></td></tr></table><br>
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