Purnell "Iu-Mienh - English Dictionary" released

[Doug Cooper]

[fwd from the Center for Lao Studies.  All props to Herb Purnell,
Zanh, Gueix-Fongc, Ann Burgess, and Greg Aumann.  Cover & book
design/typesetting by your humble listmeister.]


Invitation:  Book Launch Reception

On behalf of the Center for Lao Studies (CLS) we would like to invite
you to our Book Launching Reception to celebrate the Center's newest
publication: An Iu-Mienh-English Dictionary with Cultural Notes, a
collaborative work with Dr. Herbert C. Purnell.

Dr. Herbert Purnell will be at the reception, which will be held at
The Eric Quezada Center for Culture & Politics, 518 Valencia Street,
San Francisco, CA 94110 on Saturday, December 15, 2012, from 2:00pm -
5:00pm. The Iu-Mienh-English Dictionary will also be available for
purchase at the reception. Appetizers and drinks will be served.

This event is free and open to the public. Please join us as we move
forward into our sixth year of service with a grand vision: to be an
institution that leads and excels in the pursuit of knowledge in the
field of Lao Studies.

Sincerely,
Vinya Sysamouth, Ph.D.
CLS Executive Director


You may order the publication at: www.laostudies.org/publications

Parking: Metered street parking is available as well as garage parking
a block away at: 42 Hoff St (between 17th St & 16th St) San Francisco,
CA 94110 Rates: 12noon to 3pm: $2/hr; 3pm-6pm: $1.50/hr

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Book Description:

The Center for Lao Studies and Silkworm Books and are pleased to
announce the joint-publication of An Iu-Mienh - English Dictionary
With Cultural Notes by Herbert C. Purnell (assisted by Zanh,
Gueix-Fongc, V. Ann Burgess, and Greg Aumann) - the most extensive
collection of Iu Mien vocabulary currently available. Based on the
language as spoken in Laos and Thailand, and written in the Iu-Mien
community's common Romanized script, this dictionary is the result of
more than 20 years' work. It is supported by a 1.3 million-word corpus
ranging from oral narrative and formal prose to Internet blogs.

Notable features include:

     5,600 entries; 28,000 subentries; 21,000 culture notes; 5,000
example sentences; 4,500 notes on usage, register, and idioms
     Thousands of informative culture notes on a wide variety of
topics, including beliefs,   clothing, cooking, courtship, marriage,
ceremonies, embroidery, folklore, names, poetry, and riddles
     Six appendices discuss numbers, names, kinship, the 60-year
cycle, references on the Iu Mien, and sources for the computerized
corpus

The Dictionary serves as an invaluable resource for Iu Mien families
in North American trying to preserve their language, younger Iu Mien
wishing to better understand the lives of their elders, as well as for
scholars, linguists, and anthropologists. And will be a unique and
treasured Christmas gift!

Herbert C. Purnell is Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics and
TESOL, Biola University. He has written on many aspects of Iu Mien
language, phonology, historical development, orthography,
lexicography, and literary form.

Advance praise for An Iu-Mienh - English Dictionary With Cultural Notes:

"A magnificent dictionary; an enormous accomplishment; a lasting
treasure of detailed information about Mien culture and language."
- Professor Martha Ratliff, Wayne State University

"Naaiv buonv Iu-Mienh - English Dictionary...tengx duqv siou liouh
Iu-Mienh fingx caux waac mingh hoz nqaang ziex doic." [This Iu-Mienh -
English Dictionary...will aid in preserving the Iu Mien language and
culture for future generations.]
- Chiem-Seng Yaangh, PhD., President, United Iu-Mien Community, Inc.
Sacramento, California

"A monumental and superb work on Southeast Asian language and culture."
- Professor Theraphan Luangthongkum, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

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