International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: 4-volume set (Hardcover) by William Bright (Editor) # Hardcover: 1856 pages Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA...
Alright, which one of you is going to own up? :) "From the distinguished lexicographer who told me how he and his 14- year-old son regularly 'skin up' together...
The fourth International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology will take place at the Chateau Lacombe Hotel, Edmonton, Canada, from Thursday 19...
Call for Papers The National Coalition of Independent Scholars will hold its 2008 Biennial Conference from October 24-26, 2008, at the Graduate Theological...
Those of you who were at the DSNA in Chicago this year likely saw the presentation by Johnny Carrera of Quercus Press -- www.quercuspress.com -- and the...
a little corpus write your own grammar Über diesen Beitrag: "Für wer was über Orgel wissen will..." wurde am 02. November 2007 - 21:27 geschrieben und ins...
The column by Edward Rothstein is in the New York Times arts section for 26 November, available via www.nytimes.com. You must register to entire the site but...
A facsimile edition was published by Konrad Miller 1962. Stuttgatt: Brockhaus. Ancient Roman road map unveiled By Bethany Bell BBC News, Vienna The landmass...
The He-She-ite PCretins are incapable of consistency in their poses of gender-equality. They'll always star of with "everyone~anyone" and "he or she" but then...
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jpmaher
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The ADS word of the year is "subprime." Press release here: http://www.americandialect.org/ Grant Barrett Vice President of Communications and Technology ...
[English version follows] [Veuillez nous excuser des envois répétés.] La 3^e Journée québécoise des dictionnaires se tiendra le vendredi 4 avril 2008, au...
THREE VACANCIES ON WELSH DICTIONARY The University of Wales is seeking to appoint two Assistant Editors and a Technical Officer to join the team re-editing...
This was sent to me to forward to the list; I hope it is of interest. Erin ... Electric Identity, LLC, a developer of language and culture related websites is...
In today's NY Times, there is brief obituary notice for Olga Coren, who died at the age of 89. She is identified as a lexicographer and crossword puzzle...
Sidney Landau
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Mar 6, 2008 7:16 pm
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Dear DSNA members Last year at Chicago I gave prior notice of the Australex conference being held in Wellington, New Zealand in 2008. The date is Thursday and ...
Dianne Bardsley
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Mar 18, 2008 12:30 am
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I'm putting together a paper for a computational linguistics workshop on cognitive aspects of the lexicon (enhancing the structure, indexes and entry points of...
Ken Litkowski
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Apr 2, 2008 5:34 pm
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I thought that people had given up asking about such matters. You might try to find something about George A. Miller. I am not sure he's still alive (he'd be...
Laurence Urdang
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Apr 2, 2008 6:39 pm
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Associate Editor, Oxford Dictionaries, OUP-USA Oxford University Press is seeking an intelligent, organized, and literate Associate Editor to join our highly...
George A. Miller was still professor emeritus at Princeton last I checked, and he developed the very successful WordNet lexical database there, which is the...
Thanks, Martin. I've been friends with George for years. I've been primarily trying to find out what standard dictionary publishers are up to. (Doesn't seem...
Ken Litkowski
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Apr 3, 2008 8:26 pm
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Although it remains unacknowledged, the WordNet system was inspired by several longish conversations with George over dinner when he'd stop by for a visit on...
Laurence Urdang
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Apr 4, 2008 6:49 pm
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... _*The first dictionary of its kind, drawn from four centuries of research in twenty-five languages *_ _AN ANALYTIC DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY: An...
Hello. I just joined the list . . . I have a quick question. I saw the movie Bank Job, which takes place in 1971 in London. Some characters described others as...
Rebecca Shapiro
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Apr 23, 2008 4:03 pm
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... Rebecca: Hi. It happens that I was working on a quote in Shakespeare this morning that he (Shakey) had the prescience to write in 1603 for you: FIRST LORD:...
Hi Scott, hi Rebecca: May I add that one could also say that "especially if it [the movie] was (NORTH) AMERICAN written of (NORTH) AMERICAN-played, it might...