Fwd: Lexicography, Welsh: Heinz

[Elizabeth J. Pyatt]

A book on the solciolinguistics of Welsh dictionaries was announced
on LinguistList.

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>LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-700. Tue Mar 11 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.
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>Subject: 14.700, Books: Lexicography, Welsh: Heinz

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>Date:  Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:55:52 +0000
>From:  LINCOM.EUROPA at t-online.de
>Subject:  Welsh Dictionaries in the twentieth century...
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>Title: Welsh Dictionaries in the twentieth century
>Subtitle: A critical analysis
>Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Indo-European Linguistics 21
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>Publication Year: 2003
>Publisher: Lincom Europa
>            http://home.t-online.de/home/LINCOM.EUROPA/
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>Availability: Available
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>Author: Sabine  Heinz
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>Paperback: ISBN: 3895867500, Pages: 540, Price: USD 76 / EUR 80 / GBP
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>Abstract:
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>The book presents the first investigation of modern Welsh dictionaries
>in their socio-historic context. It is based on the latest
>lexicographical and grammatical research. It focuses predominantly on
>the analysis of the grammatical information contained in modern Welsh
>general-purpose of dictionaries. In the light of a rich
>lexicographical production in contemporary Wales, this aspect is of
>highest priority, since such grammatical information provides the
>basic knowledge of how to use lexical items in context and how to
>apply them in speech. An adequate linguistic description of a given
>language will thereby support its maintenance and the identity of its
>speakers, a problem area also discussed here.  In view of this, Welsh
>nouns and verbs are presented in a new classification which aimes to
>reflect their properties more clearly and make them more easily
>reflectable in dictionary entries. A plea has been made for the
>inclusion of comprehensive morphological information into dictionary
>entries, but also phonetic transcription in order to promote language
>acquisition and maintenance.  The works pays respect to the
>lexicographical work which has been thus far in Wales produced under
>intricate socio-historical conditions. It is meant to encourage
>further linguistic research and thereby to contribute to the
>stabilisation of the language.  The author of the book is a lecturer
>on Celtic. She has published widely on various aspects of Celtic
>matters.
>
>Lingfield(s):  Lexicography
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>Subject Language(s):  Welsh (Language Code: WLS)
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>Written In: English (Language Code: English)
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