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Using Undictionaried Words - New York Times (blog)
New York Times (blog)Using Undictionaried WordsNew York Times (blog)By ERIN MCKEAN There are lots of ways that writers use dictionaries, from the expected (checking spelling) to the unconventional...
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Interview: New blog for experimental statistics in corpus linguistics
An interview with Sean Wallis, author of http://corplingstats.wordpress.com/See it on Scoop.it, via EMLex News on Lexicography
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Assessments on the 5th International Conference on Hispanic Lexicography
Assessments on the 5th International Conference on Hispanic Lexicography made by Pilar Garcés, director of the conference and professor of Spanish Language at the University Carlos III of Madrid...
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Kongress der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL) an der Universität...
Sprachwissenschaftler fürchten einen Kulturverlust durch die Gratis-Mentalität im Internet. Während die Menschen sich ihr Wissen früher häufig über sorgfältig bearbeitete Wörterbücher angeeignet...
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Es war einmal das Wörterbuch der Grimms
Das "Deutsche Wörterbuch" gilt als Denkmal der Germanistik. Begonnen wurde es von den Brüdern Grimm 1838. Nach ihrem Tode wurde die Arbeit von mehreren Forschergenerationen fortgesetzt, bis es 1961...
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War of the Dictionaries
War of the Dictionaries By Barbara Shaffer, unofficial historian of Springfield, Massachusetts The Georgian brick building of the Merriam-Webster company on Federal Street in Springfield,...
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Manuscript of 212-year-old dictionary of Indian languages found
The manuscript of a 212-year-old dictionary written by a British polymath employed by the East India Company in the late 18th century has been traced in the British Library, shedding new light on the...
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What I Do: Lexicographer a woman of her word
What I Do: Lexicographer a woman of her wordSan Francisco ChronicleSarah Ogilvie grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and earned a doctorate in linguistics at Oxford University in England.See it on...
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Töter als ein toter
Dr. Bopp hat gerade die Frage beantwortet, ob man das Adjektiv tot steigern kann oder nicht. Die Antwort ist: man kann. An dieser Antwort habe ich auch gar nichts auszusetzen; trotzdem ist tot ein...
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Interview with Erin McKean
“A good definition is like a good poem: beautiful and worthwhile in itself” - Interview with lexistar Erin McKean Before starting Wordnik, Erin McKean was editor in chief for American...
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A "Dictionary of food and restaurant industry (galician-spanish-english)" has...
Photo: @alorenzo64EMLex's insight:The "Dictionary of food and restaurant industry galician-spanish-english" was presented today to employers in Santiago de Compostela. It has been elaborated by the...
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Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography | Big Data Virtual Sales Force
In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways today's print dictionary is poised for transformation.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks...
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21st-Century Learning Tools: Interactive Visual Dictionaries
"...explore the expanding genre of interactive multi-media visual dictionaries by looking at two very different options. The first by Merriam-Webster and QA International, the Visual Merriam-Webster;...
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Neues Portal für Lehnwörterbücher geht online
EMLex's insight:Im November wird mit dem „Lehnwortportal Deutsch“ (http://lwp.ids-mannheim.de/) ein neues Informations- und Rechercheangebot des IDS online verfügbar sein. Das Portal ermöglicht einen...
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Dictionary Day
It was the eighth time that the so-called Dictionary Day had been organised by the Dictionary Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The event was held at Károli Gáspár University on 3 October...
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In the Digital Era, Our Dictionaries Read Us - The Chronicle Review - The...
Redefined, these reference works quickly adapt to current usage and respond to readers' up-to-the-minute interests.See it on Scoop.it, via EMLex News on Lexicography
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Pioneer lexicographical projects to be presented in Grodno
Pioneer lexicographical projects to be presented in Grodno News of Belarus An international scientific conference “Modern Lexicography” will be hosted by the Grodno university on 10-13 April.See it on...
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Old English and the lexicography of Old High German
In this lecture I will focus on how Old English affected the early German written record and on the difficulties of its lexicographical description.See it on Scoop.it, via EMLex News on Lexicography
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Larousse change its definition of marriage, two MP protest
N'en déplaise aux opposants au mariage pour tous, les professionnels du dictionnaire ont déjà pour la plupart entériné cette évolution de la...See it on Scoop.it, via EMLex News on Lexicography
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"The Last Lexicographers" - Dictionary Society of North America
With the average age of English-language lexicographers "well over 40," fewer openings to train new lexicographers for, and perhaps 100 remaining in the world (which Hargraves believes is actually...
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