[Lexicog] Collaborative lexicography software?

[Heather Souter]

Taanshi, everyone.

I, too, am very interested in learning about dictionary development
for languages with complex morphologies.  My language is Michif ( yes,
the "mixed language"--whatever that means ?! :-).   Citationa forms
and data collection are very much on my mind right now as our project
is just in the incipient stage.

Any insight into how to create dictionaries that are useful to
speakers and learners and not only language specialists would be
especially welcomed!

Eekushi pitamaa.
Heather Souter
Camperville, Manitoba, Canada

On 5/1/08, Vincent Isles <islesv at gmail.com> wrote:
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> You are almost describing the case of Cebuano, the language of the
>  majority of Filipinos. Almost 50 years since Wolff did his seminal
>  dictionary of the language (the first one to use root-based citation
>  form), only scholars themselves find the value of Wolff's dictionary.
>  It's not even sold in bookstores. The amateurish Garcia dictionary,
>  which lists separate words for walk, walking, had walked, etc. are
>  found to be easier to use by the native speakers :)
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>  It's hard to argue with native speakers when they tell you that the
>  "base" form (which they say is the "stem" of all the other forms of
>  the word - which means it is the natural choice for the citation form)
>  of KALIPAY (joy) is KALIPAY, despite showing them that all noun forms
>  are formed by addition of KA- prefix: KALUOY (pity, LUOY - piteous),
>  KASAKIT (pain, SAKIT - painful), etc.
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>  --Vincent Isles
>  http://tech.islesv.net/
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>  --- In lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com, maxwell at ...
> wrote:
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>  > So--I would be interested in hearing about success (or failure)
>  > stories about building dictionaries for languages with complex
>  > morphologies,
>  > particularly in about native speakers without linguistic training
>  > collecting vocabulary.
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