I'm looking for examples of dictionaries (or even specific entries) whose analysis and presentation reflect and model recent (i.e., most of the twentieth...
Hello, Interesting question, indeed. There have been a number of similar discussions in the Euralex conferences in recent years. If I were you, I'd have a look...
NOAD, the New Oxford American Dictionary (first edition 2001), is based on linguistic prototype theory. I don't know where you can find a discussion of this ...
Andrea Nagy
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Jun 2, 2005 9:26 am
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Patrick did do a good paper on this, which I have a link to somewhere. I'll dig it up and send it around, unless he beats me to it! Erin...
Mr. Kang's point about ipod reflects the age-old dispute about how much strictly lexicographical matter vs. encyclopedic matter should be included in a...
Laurence Urdang
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Jun 2, 2005 1:45 pm
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... I mostly agree with you, but I cited the wikipedia entry because it's precisely the kind of resource where you can conveniently track (or at least start...
... The official name is "Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics", published by Elsevier. The first edition is several years old, but a new one, including...
Ken Litkowski
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Jun 2, 2005 8:41 pm
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I think we neglected to announce the results of the DSNA election a few months ago. Terry Pratt is our new vice-president/president elect, and Joanne Despres...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jun 3, 2005 1:07 pm
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Mr. Kang, "So yes, use wikipedia with caution, but also with an open mind. "Really, couldn't or shouldn't we say the same about all printed works?" We...
Laurence Urdang
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Jun 3, 2005 2:05 pm
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American Dialect Society <ADS-L@...> on Saturday, June 04, ... 1646 David Barnhart, Hyde Park, N.Y. 12538 [Non-text portions of this message have...
Barnhart
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Jun 5, 2005 8:18 am
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Sorry, this is a email hoax. You can find out more about it at http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/nea.asp. Please do not send petitions, warnings, or alerts...
Here is the recent article I mentioned in the business meeting on Saturday about the legal issues involved in reproducing scholarly journals online. A very...
For the puzzle doers on our list: Stefanie Levine, producer of A Way with Words on KPBS radio in San Diego, is looking for a puzzle maker to join the show--a...
Wendalyn Nichols
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Jun 15, 2005 3:03 am
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"Sea" must be the collective noun for bow ties. "A hundred or so logophiles, lexicographers, philologists, and word nerds descended on Boston University last...
Hmm. NO mention of sandals and painted toenails (me and Karen) or Birkenstocks (Joe) or colorful circle skirts (Erin). I like the article, though!...
Wendalyn Nichols
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Jun 16, 2005 3:15 pm
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Why is it obvious only to me that it was the alliterative sea of seersucker and not bowties that was described in the report? L. Urdang Old Lyme [Non-text...
Laurence Urdang
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Jun 16, 2005 8:14 pm
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I wasn't able to access the article (I got a "not authorized" message). Could someone copy it for us, or at least a bit more than the paragraph quoted by...
Victoria Neufeldt
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Jun 17, 2005 5:30 pm
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Victoria, Try the correct link (it's broken in the original message) http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents /04768178.asp It...
Hi again, It looks like the link I inserted broke again (don't know why, strange indeed). The string "/04768178.asp" should be added at the end of the URL in...
Well, glory be, it worked this time. Thanks a lot, Thierry. A nice article. I'm sure all readers will have regretted missing the event! Victoria ... From:...
Victoria Neufeldt
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Jun 17, 2005 9:00 pm
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I have recently begun work on a major commission to write a history of the Oxford English Dictionary, to be published by OUP. I am planning to cover the whole...
Gilliver, Peter
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Jun 27, 2005 12:55 pm
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Article of interest in the Saturday NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/02/opinion/02lynch.html?ex=1121054400&en=2bccfded95fe5a7b&ei=5070&emc=eta1...
Orin Hargraves
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Jul 3, 2005 8:19 pm
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I read Lynch's article in the NY Times, which was fine so far as Johnson was concerned, but to say about Webster's 1828 dictionary that "his terse work is...
Sidney Landau
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Jul 4, 2005 4:02 pm
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I agree! It was a very surprising thing to read; hard to believe, actually, that he would even think that, let alone write it in a NYTimes article. I know...
Victoria Neufeldt
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Jul 4, 2005 5:22 pm
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Dear all, The meeting photo taken at Boston can be accessed at http://www.bu.edu/photo/2001/POST225DCGP There is also a link from the DSNA website to this. ...
Luanne von Schneideme...
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Jul 11, 2005 2:45 am
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Thought folks might be interested in this article from the NYTimes. Erin July 13, 2005 Dictionaries Are Set Aside in Patent Suits By BLOOMBERG NEWS Inventors,...
Circuit Judge William C. Bryson, in an opinion for 9 of the 12 judges on the court, wrote that "The main problem with elevating the dictionary to such...
Thomas Paikeday
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Jul 15, 2005 1:14 pm
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Erin, Thanks for the link to the Times piece. It is badly written and quite meaningless without a few examples: the citing of baffle is useless, for it is...
Laurence Urdang
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Jul 15, 2005 1:40 pm
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... meaningless without a few examples: the citing of baffle is useless, for it is incomplete, and no detailed explanation is given of the issue. Too bad, for ...
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