DICTIONARIES course

[Dennis R. Preston]

Ron,

I taught a lexicography course at the 1632 LSA Summer Institute
(maybe an earlier one, I tend to forget), and I was delighted even
then with some of the stuff in Zgusta's Manual of Lexicography
(Mouton). Not appropriate reading in its entrity for your audience,
but a wonderful organizing summary in my opion.

dInIs

>I have scheduled myself to teach a new course, DICTIONARIES AND THE LEXICON,
>in Spring 2002 at Duke. The course is open to (1). undergraduates who have
>had at least one course in linguistics and (2). graduate students in English
>or Linguistics; the
>English grad students must be willing to do some extra reading if they have
>not already had a linguistics course.
>
>I'm wondering what experiences others have had with such a course. Will
>people who have given such a course please send me synopses, syllabuses,
>thoughts on what has worked and what has not worked, etc. (For example, has
>anyone put in a brief unit on the persistence of folk etymologies? That could
>be a lot of fun.)
>
>I'm already in touch with the folks at University of Georgia where such a
>course was given last year; Bill Kretzschmar tells me that he himself is at
>work on a syllabus for the such a course for Spring 2002, too.

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Dennis R. Preston
Department of Linguistics and Languages
Michigan State University
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