[Lexicog] How to select words for a bilingual dictionary

[Chaz and Helga Mortensen]

Good morning, Mery. It is probably after lunch where you are.

I have not approached dictionary formation from a theoretical perspective and those who do can provide some help for you from their perspective. My experience has been to use texts and recorded dialogues to find new words. The Shoebox grammar program used to work very well at that: it would prompt you to identify any unrecognized morpheme and parse any unrecognized combination of morphemes. That assured that everything was accounted for.

The Swadesh-Rowe list is a basic starter as well.

Best wishes,

Chaz Mortensen
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mery Martinelli 
  To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:23 AM
  Subject: [Lexicog] How to select words for a bilingual dictionary


  Dear all,
  in my MA thesis on bilingual lexicography I am describing the ways in which dictionary words can be selected. I know that it depends on the variety of language treated in the dictionary. Imagine that you had to select form your own language the words to treat in a big general language bilingual dictionary and those for a pocket one, how would you do it?
  Regards,
  Mery Martinelli
  SSLMIT, Bologna (Italy)





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