DICTIONARY SOCIETY
of NORTH AMERICA
The XV
Biennial Meeting of the
Dictionary Society
of North America offered members an opportunity to join with Boston
University,
Houghton Mifflin, and Merriam-Webster at a conference in the New
England area
where American lexicography began.
Schedule of Papers, Boston 2005
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June 9
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Practical Lexicography I
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8:00 AM
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Ian Brookes | Painting the Forth Bridge:Coping with Obsolescence in a Monolingual English Dictionary | ||
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8:25 AM
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Janet DeCesaris and Paz Battaner | Zero Derivation and the Order of Senses | ||
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8:50 AM
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Don McCreary | Lumpers vs. Splitters: An Old Issue Revisited | ||
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9:15 AM
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Wendalyn Nichols and Erin McKean | Corpus-based Lexicography: What's the Difference? | ||
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9:40 AM
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Ron R. Butters and Sarah Hilliard | The Dictionary Treatment of Similatives | ||
| History of Dictionaries I | ||||
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10:20 AM
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R.W. McConchie | Dis- and the Dictionaries: The Introduction of the Prefix dis- into Middle English | ||
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10:45 AM
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David Micklethwait | The Beauty of Books and the Fascination of Fascicles | ||
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11:10 AM
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Jason Mosser | The History of Literary Reference Works | ||
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11:35 AM
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Michael Hancher | The Murray-Marshall Correspondence | ||
| Special Issues | ||||
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2:20 PM
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Miroslawa Podhajecka | Russian Loanwords and the ‘Hard Word’ Tradition in English Lexicography | ||
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2:45 PM
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Thora van Male | Haute Couture in the Dictionary | ||
| History of Dictionaries II | ||||
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3:30 PM
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Fabienne Baider | French Historical Dictionaries | ||
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3:55 PM
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Monique Cormier | The Reception of Abel Boyer’s Royal Dictionary | ||
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4:20 PM
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Anne Dykstra | Taboo Words and the Lexicon Frisicum (1872) | ||
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4:45 PM
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Aline Francœur and Monique Cormier | Dictionary Abridgment in the 17th and 18th Centuries: the Case of French-English/English-French Dictionaries | ||
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June 10
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Practical Lexicography II
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8:00 AM
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Barbara Ann Kipfer | Using Learner's Dictionaries for Young Native Speakers | ||
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8:25 AM
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Gerald Cohen | Origin of the Term 'Hot Dog'--Milestone in a Research Project | ||
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8:50 AM
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Victoria Neufeldt | An Adventure in Dictionary Making | ||
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9:15 AM
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Charlotte Brewer | Gender in the OED | ||
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9:40 AM
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Elizabeth Knowles | Comparative Levity: the Later History of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations | ||
| History of Dictionaries III | ||||
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10:20 AM
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David Eick | The Querelle des Dictionnaires: Antoine Furetière vs. the French Academy | ||
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10:45 AM
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Lisa Berglund | “Familiar talk”: Hester Lynch Piozzi and Female Synonymy | ||
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11:10 AM
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Anatoly Liberman | Samuel Johnson’s Etymologies in the Context of his Time | ||
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11:35 AM
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Chris Pearce | Samuel Johnson's Use of "Corruption" as a Linguistic Heuristic | ||
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June 11
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Computers and Lexicography
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8:00 AM
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Deborah Anderson | How to Help Make Online Dictionaries More Accessible (with Unicode) | ||
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8:25 AM
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Win Carus | Vector-Based Models of Meaning and Their Application in Lexicography | ||
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8:50 AM
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Orin Hargraves and Kenneth Litkowski | Characterizing Prepositions for a Natural Language Processing System | ||
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9:15 AM
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Margareta Kastberg Sjöblom | Dictionary Phraseology and Lexicostatistical Techniques | ||
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9:40 AM
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Erin McKean | Who Uses Web Dictionaries (and Why)? | ||
| Lexicography, the Law, and Congress | ||||
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10:20 AM
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Michael Adams and Jennifer Westerhaus Adams | Vulgarity, Dictionaries, and American Trademark Law | ||
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10:45 AM
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Paul Healey | The Use of Dictionaries in Judicial Decision-Making | ||
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11:10 AM
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August Imholtz | Glossaries and Spelling Reform Proposals: Two Kinds of Lexicographical Sources in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set | ||
| Jargon, Slang, Amelioration, and Place Names | ||||
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1:30 PM
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Grant Barrett | What Happened to the Lexicon of Trade Jargon ? | ||
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1:55 PM
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Malina M. Nielson and Cynthia Hallen | Defining Emily Dickinson’s Place Names | ||
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2:20 PM
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Karen Stollznow | When Opposites Attract: The Re-appropriation and Amelioration of Words in Australian English |