Linguistics, Lexicography, and the Revitalization of Endangered Languages

Ogilvie, Sarah

doi:10.1093/ijl/ecr019

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“…Today, truly interactive access to (not to mention opportunity to actively participate in the development of) the archived materials by native speakers has never been as complete. Similar arguments can be made for the valuable contribution of dictionary compilation in on-line formats (Ogilvie, 2011). The lexicon of the Nahuatl language, modern and "classical, " Spanish-influenced and "purist, " remains one of the topics of lively discussion and debate among bilingual speakers.…”

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Prospects for indigenous language bilingualism in Mexico

Francis

2016

LPLP

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This retrospective overview looks back twenty years to the first series of reports from the field on a study of bilingualism and literacy learning. Continuing research in the same community during this period allows today for a reassessment of the claims, proposals and overall approach of the project. The particular language contact situation, that of indigenous language (IL)-national language (NL) bilingualism, adds an important dimension to the discussion, one that has attracted much attention in recent years: the problem of language erosion/language shift in the context of widespread mastery of, and expanding literacy in, the national language. This condition of language replacement still requires further study for the purpose of gaining clarity on important theoretical questions as well as pressing practical applications related to the development of language abilities among the new generation of school-age bilinguals.

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Prospects for indigenous language bilingualism in Mexico

Francis

2016

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“…Finally, we contemplate how to determine when the lexical database is "good enough" to publish in dictionary form and when and how to archive (all or part of) the data set (see also Andreassen, chapter 7, this volume; Buzsard-Welcher, chapter 10, this volume). To explore these and related issues further, we refer readers to resources on basic lexicography theory and practice (e.g., Atkins & Rundell 2008;Landau 2001;Zgusta 1971, among many others, as well as the International Journal of Lexicography) and to resources that specifically address lexicographic work in the context of language documentation and preservation (e.g., Frawley, Hill, & Munro 2002b;Mosel 2011;Haviland 2006;Ogilvie 2011;Rice 2018).…”

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Managing Lexicography Data: A Practical, Principled Approach Using FLEx (FieldWorks Language Explorer)

Beier¹,

Michael²

2022

The Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management

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“…Lexicography for indigenous languages can require particular methods, as discussed in the volume edited by Frawley et al (2002), and also by Bowern (2008, pp. 203-207), Mosel (2011), Haviland (2006), Ogilvie (2011), Simpson (1993) and the December 2011 special issue of the International Journal of Lexicography on dictionaries of endangered languages (http://ijl.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/4.toc). Briefly, there are particular issues related to the number of speakers, the number of literate speakers, the role of literacy in the community, and the amount of information recorded in the language.…”

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The lexicography of indigenous languages in Australia and the Pacific

Thieberger

2015

International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography

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The Australia and Pacific region is home to nearly a quarter of the world's languages. Wordlists of a few of these languages date back to the first European explorers, while detailed dictionaries have been prepared for somewhere less than 5 % of them. Where an indigenous language is the official language of a country of this region it is more likely to have a dictionary and ongoing administrative support for lexicographic work, and, in a few cases, a corpus from which terms can be sourced. For most indigenous languages dictionaries are prepared in the course of language documentation efforts by researchers from outside of the speech community, using modern lexicographic database tools and resulting in structured lexicons. As a result, it is possible to produce various output formats of these dictionaries, including print-on-demand, multimodal webpages, and mobile devices as increasingly popular methods of delivery. A major use of these dictionaries can be to support vernacular language programs in schools. This region was a test bed for computational bilingual lexicography, and is home to the two largest comparative lexical databases of indigenous languages.

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Linguistics, Lexicography, and the Revitalization of Endangered Languages

Cited by 12 publications

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Prospects for indigenous language bilingualism in Mexico

Prospects for indigenous language bilingualism in Mexico

Managing Lexicography Data: A Practical, Principled Approach Using FLEx (FieldWorks Language Explorer)

The lexicography of indigenous languages in Australia and the Pacific

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