[Lexicog] book - Bilingual dictionaries for indigenous languages

[Susan Gehr]

I went to look for the book online, and couldn't find it anywhere, until I
thought to look in my copy of the LinguaLinks Library, and there it was - I
already owned a copy.

Susan Gehr
Karuk Tribe of California

>
>Thanks, Mike,
>
>The reference is: Bartholomew, Doris A., and Louise C. Schoenhals. 1983.
>Bilingual dictionaries for indigenous languages. Mexico: Summer Institute
>of
>Linguistics.
>
>       Fritz Goerling
>
>
>
>
>   Fritz Goerling wrote:
>   > I wonder what a good, useful bilingual dictionary should include
>   > when it comes to illustrative sentences. What is too much and what
>   > is too little?
>
>   IIRC, there was some discussion of this topic in this list awhile
>   back--you might check the archives, although I don't think it explicitly
>   touched on the question of grammar vs. dictionary.
>
>   To my mind, one of the most useful discussions of example sentences is
>   in the Bartholomew/ Schoenhalls book on bilingual dictionaries that
>   SIL(?) published a couple decades ago.  Things like that don't change
>   over time (although of course an electonic dictionary connected to a
>   concordance generator and a large corpus would change what's
>   possible--but not, perhaps, the usefulness of having an expert
>   pre-select and arrange the best "hits").
>   --
>         Mike Maxwell
>         Linguistic Data Consortium
>         maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu
>
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