Making dictionaries : preserving indigenous languages of the Americas /
Many indigenous American languages face imminent extinction, and the dictionary, often the only written documentation of these languages, stands as a powerful tool in preserving them. These essays, written by leading scholars in Native American language studies, provide a comprehensive picture of th...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2002
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Table of Contents:
- Making a Dictionary: Ten Issues / William Frawley, Kenneth C. Hill and Pamela Munro
- 1 Theoretical and Universal Implications of Certain Verbal Entries in Dictionaries of the Misumalpan Languages / Ken Hale and Danilo Salamanca
- 2. Morphology in Cherokee Lexicography: The Cherokee-English Dictionary / William Pulte and Durbin Feeling
- 3. Lexical Functions as a Heuristic for Huichol / Joseph E. Grimes
- 4. Entries for Verbs in American Indian Language Dictionaries / Pamela Munro
- 5. Multiple Assertions, Grammatical Constructions, Lexical Pragmatics, and the Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary / Richard A. Rhodes
- 6. Issues of Standardization and Community in Aboriginal Language Lexicography / Keren Rice and Leslie Saxon
- 7. A Dictionary for Whom? Tensions between Academic and Nonacademic Functions of Bilingual Dictionaries / Leanne Hinton and William F. Weigel
- 8. Language Renewal and the Technologies of Literacy and Postliteracy: Reflections from Western Mono / Paul V. Kroskrity
- 9. An Interactive Dictionary and Text Corpus for Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl / Una Canger
- 10. What's in a Word? The Whys and What Fors of a Nahuatl Dictionary / Jonathan D. Amith
- 11. The Comparative Siouan Dictionary Project / David S. Rood and John E. Koontz
- 12. Writing a Nez Perce Dictionary / Haruo Aoki
- 13. On Publishing the Hopi Dictionary / Kenneth C. Hill
- 14. Writing a User-Friendly Dictionary / Catherine A. Callaghan
- 15. The NAPUS (Native American Placenames of the United States) Project: Principles and Problems / William Bright
- 16. Alonso de Molina as Lexicographer / Mary L. Clayton and R. Joe Campbell.
- Theoretical and universal implications of certain verbal entries in dictionaries of the Misumalpan languages / Ken Hale and Danilo Salamanca
- Morphology in Cherokee lexicography : The Cherokee-English dictionary / William Pulte and Durbin Feeling
- Lexical functions as a heuristic for Huichol / Joseph E. Grimes
- Entries for verbs in American Indian language dictionaries / Pamelo Munro
- Multiple assertions, grammatical constructions, lexical pragmatics, and the Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa dictionary / Richard A. Rhodes
- Issues of standardization and community in Aboriginal language lexicography / Keren Rice and Leslie Saxon
- A dictionary for whom? : tensions between academic and nonacademic functions of bilingual dictionaries / Leanne Hinton and William F. Weigel
- Language renewal and the technologies of literacy and postliteracy : reflections from Western Mono / Paul V. Kroskrity
- An interactive dictionary and text corpus for sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahuatl / Una Canger
- What's in a word? : the whys and what fors of a Nahuatl dictionary / Jonathan D. Amith
- The comparative Siouan dictionary project / David S. Rood and John E. Koontz
- Writing a Nez Perce dictionary / Haruo Aoki
- On publishing the Hopi dictionary / Kenneth C. Hill
- Writing a user-friendly dictionary / Catherine A. Callaghan
- The NAPUS (Native American Placenames of the United States) project : principles and problems / William Bright
- Alonso de Molina as lexicographer / Mary L. Clayton and R. Joe Campbell