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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>I had a very good experience incorporating an already published dictionary as the basis for the new edition with the Karuk Dictionary <a href="http://ncidc.org/gift/detail.cfm?id=2339">http://ncidc.org/gift/detail.cfm?id=2339</a>. Of course I not only had the permission of the original author, Bill Bright, he actively worked with me on the new edition. The original work was public domain, so it was a courtesy to seek his permission, which he freely gave. Those circumstances made the copyright issue fairly straightforward. <BR>
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I don’t know if this is an ideal way to make a new dictionary, but it worked very well for our situation. We did find that in the fifty years that had passed between his original work and the 2005 dictionary, that there were words that had become obsolete and some new words, too. Because he was involved with the original work, we could follow up on questions, doubts or issues with previous entries. After we published in 2005, we did form a dictionary advisory committee of language speakers who reviewed sections of the dictionary and provided feedback, corrections and missing words. Looking back, we might have formed the advisory committee sooner, but we did present drafts of the dictionary at language committee meetings and at community language classes.<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'>We might not have such an extensive dictionary if we’d decided to start from scratch. Now we have something that is the basis for conversation for our fluent elders and fluent listeners of the language. <BR>
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Hope that helps,<BR>
Susan Gehr<BR>
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On 12/18/09 3:34 AM, "Richard Gravina" <<a href="Richard-Sue_Gravina@sil.org">Richard-Sue_Gravina@sil.org</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><FONT FACE="Arial">Thanks to everyone for their contributions.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Does anyone have positive experiences on how they built on the work of previous researchers? Any pitfalls to avoid?<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">As with other areas of linguistics, it is good to benefit from earlier work, though the earlier work can be expected to be flawed.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">The context is working with minority languages. <BR>
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</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial">Richard Gravina<BR>
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