[Lexicog] Newbie

[J.L. DeLucca]

Mike et al.
 
I have started in lexicography with a Ph.D in general linguistics taking selected courses during six long years and working as reviewer and lexicographer. My first Ph.D thesis was about "statistical methods applied to lexicography" (I did before a bachelor degree in economics). 
 
After finishing my Ph.D. I have decided go to corpus linguistics and computational lexicography. Computational lexicography it is a hard way but very interesting especially together corpus linguistics. Now I am doing a research on "phraseology" from a NLP point-of-view. 
 
Do you will have a large field for doing research and wroking, especially if you have the English as mother tongue -. My Achilles’ heel!
 
Best regards
 
J. L. De Lucca
 
 

--- On Tue, 1/20/09, Mike Maxwell <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:

From: Mike Maxwell <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Newbie
To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2009, 9:33 AM






kozmikcallie wrote:
> ... I'm very interested in working as a lexicographer but I
> have no idea how to get started. It helps that I live in the same city

Ronald Moe wrote:
> The best background for a lexicographer is a degree in linguistics. You 
> would need a good all-round program with courses in phonetics, 
> phonology, morphology, syntax, discourse grammar, socio-linguistics, 
> historical linguistics, and semantics. 

I would mostly defer to Ron, who knows a lot more about lexicography 
than I ever will. However, I would also say that a lot depends on what 
kind of lexicography you want to do, for what purpose, and in what 
languages. If you want to work on English for popular dictionaries, for 
example, that's one thing (and, I would think, a pretty filled-up 
field). If you want to work on literate languages which are spoken by 
sizable minorities in certain countries, such as Catalan in Europe or 
perhaps Telegu in India, then that's a different question. Or if you 
want to work on endangered languages, or lexicography for computational 
purposes, those are still different.

General linguistics is probably a good start for any of these (along 
with computational linguistics) , but the emphasis within linguistics 
would--I think--vary widely.

Mike Maxwell
 














      
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