[Lexicog] Ron Moe's approach to discovering the lexicon via semantic domains

[Ron Moe]

> I've got an article in the last issue of Lexikos (13), the journal of the
> African Association for Lexicography.
> Ron
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Wayne Leman [mailto:wayne_leman at sil.org]
>   Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:52 AM
>   To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
>   Subject: [Lexicog] Ron Moe's approach to discovering the lexicon via
> semantic domains
>
>
>   Neal, I'm glad you mentioned Ron Moe's approach. I was thinking of it
when
> I first posted this topic thread (name of the thread now slightly
changed).
> Unfortunately, Moe's technique is described in an in-house publication of
> SIL. It deserves to have a wider audience. Ron is a member of this list,
> which includes any linguist interested in lexicography, and I'm hoping
that
> Ron will contribute to this topic thread once he is back to work. I,
> personally, would like to see Moe's approach described in some
lexicography
> journal.
>
>   Wayne Leman
>     Ron Moe has a good article on developing dictionaries using Semantic
>     Domains and pulling out the associated words to these domains and then
>     entering them into a Shoebox database. In a workshop where several
> speakers
>     of the language work together, they stimulate each other and in a 2
week
>     workshop with 25-30 participants, 12,000 words can be elicited. This
>     article can be read in the SIL's Word and Deed 2.1 which just came
out.
>     Another source would be the "Outline of Cultural Material" by George
>     Murdock which covers the same type of semantic domains. This can be
> found
>     in Lingualinks Library from SIL. There is a Shoebox database included
> with
>     these domains and related words.
>     Neal Brinneman
>
>
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