[Lexicog] Newbie

[Heather Souter]

Taanshi kihtwaam....  (Hello again!)

I should have been clearer in my earlier post about online dictionaries for
minorities languages.  I am interested in online dictionaries for endangered
languages--especially those that are good examples of "best practices".

Kihchi-maarsi!  Thanks very much!

Eekoshi. That's it.
Heather

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Mike Maxwell <maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu>wrote:

>   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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