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Intersystemic Correspondence Rules and Headwords in Dutch Dialect Lexicography

Rys, K., Van Keymeulen, J. — 2009-05-21

The headwords in the three regional dialect dictionaries of the southern Dutch dialect area—the Dictionary of the Flemish Dialects (WVD), the Dictionary of the Brabantic Dialects (WBD) and the Dictionary of the Limburgish Dialects (WLD)—are ‘Dutchified’ forms: that is, headwords are rendered in Standard Dutch orthography and generalize across a number of phonologically distinct dialect forms. This article explains how the Dutchification of headwords was operationalized in the Dictionary of the Flemish Dialects. It is shown that a number of so-called correspondence rules can be found that mediate between dialect and Standard Dutch phonology and which form the basis of Dutchification. Phonological models confirm this lexicographical intuition; the work of Rys (2007) is used to exemplify the correspondence rules with examples from the Maldegem dialect.

Current Lexicography Practice in Bantu with Specific Reference to the Oxford Northern Sotho School Dictionary

Prinsloo, D.J. — 2009-05-21

The aim of this article is to provide a perspective on lexicographic traditions, lemmatisation strategies and lemmatisation approaches in Bantu language dictionaries from a South African point of view. It will be argued that Bantu language lexicography reflects a complex interplay of lexicographic traditions and lemmatisation approaches. The focus will be on Sepedi¹ – English dictionaries and on the analysis of the Oxford Northern Sotho School Dictionary, henceforth (ONSD). The ONSD will be evaluated in terms of the presumed best practices in terms of lemmatisation and against the background of the user-perspective.

Australian Aboriginal Words in Dictionaries: A Reaction

Nash, D. — 2009-05-21

A recent evaluation of how English dictionaries have treated the etymologies of some words borrowed from Australian languages was based on the author's own etymologies. I have examined one of these, for boomerang, and show that it incorporates inaccuracies and distortions, and that the criticism of J. A. H. Murray's etymology is unfounded. I suggest how the author's methodology may have led him astray.

Australian Aboriginal Words in Dictionaries: Response to Nash

Dixon, R.M.W. — 2009-05-21

John C. Wells. Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.

Sobkowiak, W. — 2009-05-21

Simpson, John (ed.). The First English Dictionary 1604. Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabetical.

Stein, G. — 2009-05-21

Heming Yong and Jing Peng. Bilingual Lexicography from a Communicative Perspective.

Ptaszynski, M. O. — 2009-05-21

Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak. Phonetics of EFL Dictionary Definitions.

Lew, R. — 2009-05-21

Angelika Storrer, Alexander Geyken, Alexander Siebert, Kay-Michael Wurzner (eds). Text Resources and Lexical Knowledge.

Fontenelle, T. — 2009-05-21

Publications Received

2009-05-21

EURALEX Newsletter

Bogaards, P. — 2009-05-21