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Within descriptive linguistic fieldwork, as we define it ( Chapter 2), lexicography or dictionary writing can be considered a tangential activity. This might seem surprising in view of the modern fieldworker’s adoption of the Boasian trilogy, which considers that, for a language to be documented or described, we need a grammar, a collection of texts, and a dictionary (Evans and Dench 2006:10, 12; Dixon 2007). These three components would typically be compiled from fieldworkers’ notes, wordlists, grammatical elicitations, and texts.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Boas did not draw a neat distinction between documentation and description.

  2. 2.

    The number of words suggested for initial phonetic fieldwork varies. Some say 200, others – like Grimes (1995: 9) –say 300.

  3. 3.

    It is interesting that none of the speakers thought of identifying a ‘rabbit’ by its long ears and short tail, and a squirrel by its short ears and long bushy tail, as English speakers presumably would do.

  4. 4.

    http://stedt.berkeley.edu/html/questionnaires.html

  5. 5.

    http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/jakarta/docs/English.pdf

  6. 6.

    http://www.sil.org/silewp/2006/silewp2006-005.pdf

  7. 7.

    http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/collections/detail/Linguistic-Atlas-of-the-Gulf-States-333.shtml

  8. 8.

    Haviland (2006:133) states, however, that there are over 35,000 entries in Laughlin (1975).

  9. 9.

    There are also, of course, recent dictionaries based entirely on philology, such as Masthay (1991,2002), and Laughlin and Haviland (1988) (see Section 5.2).

  10. 10.

    This imbalance was corrected in a later dictionary, which is trilingual Tzotzil–English–Spanish (Laughlin and Haviland1988).

  11. 11.

    Texts containing religious or otherwise sensitive material can also be objected to, of course, but these are more easily predicted than objections to a dictionary.

  12. 12.

    http://wesay.org/wiki/Main_Page

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