Making Dictionaries

by Frawley, William; Hill, Kenneth C.; Munro, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9780520229969
• ISBN10: 0520229967
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

A collection of essays about the theory and practice of Native American lexicography, and more specifically the making of dictionaries, by some of the top scholars working in Native American language studies.

Table of Contents

Making a Dictionary: Ten Issues	1	(24)
William Frawley
Kenneth C. Hill
Pamela Munro
I. FORM AND MEANING IN THE DICTIONARY
Theoretical and Universal Implications of Certain Verbal Entries in Dictionaries of the Misumalpan Languages	25	(35)
Ken Hale
Danilo Salamanca
Morphology in Cherokee Lexicography: The Cherokee-English Dictionary	60	(10)
William Pulte
Durbin Feeling
Lexical Functions as a Heuristic for Huichol	70	(16)
Joseph E. Grimes
Entries for Verbs in American Indian Language Dictionaries	86	(22)
Pamela Munro
Multiple Assertions, Grammatical Constructions, Lexical Pragmatics, and the Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary	108	(17)
Richard A. Rhodes
II. ROLE OF THE DICTIONARY IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
Issues of Standardization and Community in Aboriginal Language Lexicography	125	(30)
Keren Rice
Leslie Saxon
A Dictionary for Whom? Tensions between Academic and Nonacademic Functions of Bilingual Dictionaries	155	(16)
Leanne Hinton
William F. Weigel
Language Renewal and the Technologies of Literacy and Postliteracy: Reflections from Western Mono	171	(24)
Paul V. Kroskrity
III. TECHNOLOGY AND DICTIONARY DESIGN
An Interactive Dictionary and Text Corpus for Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl	195	(24)
Una Canger
What's in a Word? The Whys and What Fors of a Nahuatl Dictionary	219	(40)
Jonathan D. Amith
The Comparative Siouan Dictionary Project	259	(26)
David S. Rood
John E. Koontz
IV. SPECIFIC PROJECTS AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
Writing a Nez Perce Dictionary	285	(14)
Haruo Aoki
On Publishing the Hopi Dictionary	299	(13)
Kenneth C. Hill
Writing a User-Friendly Dictionary	312	(10)
Catherine A. Callaghan
The NAPUS (Native American Placenames of the United States) Project: Principles and Problems	322	(14)
William Bright
Alonso de Molina as Lexicographer	336	(55)
Mary L. Clayton
R. Joe Campbell
Bibliography	391	(32)
List of Contributors	423	(6)
Index	429