DICTIONARY SOCIETY
of  NORTH AMERICA

XV Biennial Meeting, June 8 - 11, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts


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

June 9
       
Practical Lexicography I
       
8:00 AM
  Ian Brookes   Painting the Forth Bridge:Coping with Obsolescence in a Monolingual English Dictionary
8:25 AM
  Janet DeCesaris and Paz Battaner   Zero Derivation and the Order of Senses
8:50 AM
  Don McCreary     Lumpers vs. Splitters: An Old Issue Revisited
9:15 AM
  Wendalyn Nichols and Erin McKean   Corpus-based Lexicography: What's the Difference?
9:40 AM
  Ron R. Butters and Sarah Hilliard   The Dictionary Treatment of Similatives
History of Dictionaries I        
10:20 AM
  R.W. McConchie   Dis- and the Dictionaries: The Introduction of the Prefix dis- into Middle English
10:45 AM
  David Micklethwait   The Beauty of Books and the Fascination of Fascicles
11:10 AM
  Jason Mosser   The History of Literary Reference Works
11:35 AM
  Michael Hancher   The Murray-Marshall Correspondence
Special Issues        
2:20 PM
  Miroslawa Podhajecka   Russian Loanwords and the ‘Hard Word’ Tradition in English Lexicography
2:45 PM
  Thora van Male   Haute Couture in the Dictionary
History of Dictionaries II      
3:30 PM
  Fabienne Baider   French Historical Dictionaries
3:55 PM
  Monique Cormier   The Reception of Abel Boyer’s Royal Dictionary
4:20 PM
  Anne Dykstra   Taboo Words and the Lexicon Frisicum (1872)
4:45 PM

Aline Francœur and Monique Cormier   Dictionary Abridgment in the 17th and 18th Centuries: the Case of French-English/English-French Dictionaries

       
June 10
       
Practical Lexicography II
       
8:00 AM
  Barbara Ann Kipfer   Using Learner's Dictionaries for Young Native Speakers
8:25 AM

Gerald Cohen   Origin of the Term 'Hot Dog'--Milestone in a Research Project
8:50 AM

Victoria Neufeldt   An Adventure in Dictionary Making
9:15 AM

Charlotte Brewer   Gender in the OED
9:40 AM

Elizabeth Knowles   Comparative Levity: the Later History of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
History of Dictionaries III        
10:20 AM
  David Eick   The Querelle des Dictionnaires: Antoine Furetière vs. the French Academy
10:45 AM

Lisa Berglund   “Familiar talk”: Hester Lynch Piozzi and Female Synonymy
11:10 AM

Anatoly Liberman   Samuel Johnson’s Etymologies in the Context of his Time
11:35 AM

Chris Pearce   Samuel Johnson's Use of "Corruption" as a Linguistic Heuristic

       
June 11
       
Computers and Lexicography
       
8:00 AM
  Deborah Anderson   How to Help Make Online Dictionaries More Accessible (with Unicode)
8:25 AM

Win Carus   Vector-Based Models of Meaning and Their Application in Lexicography
8:50 AM

Orin Hargraves and Kenneth Litkowski   Characterizing Prepositions for a Natural Language Processing System
9:15 AM

Margareta Kastberg Sjöblom   Dictionary Phraseology and Lexicostatistical Techniques
9:40 AM

Erin McKean   Who Uses Web Dictionaries (and Why)?
Lexicography, the Law, and Congress        
10:20 AM
  Michael Adams and Jennifer Westerhaus Adams   Vulgarity, Dictionaries, and American Trademark Law
10:45 AM

Paul Healey   The Use of Dictionaries in Judicial Decision-Making
11:10 AM

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      
1:30 PM
  Grant Barrett   What Happened to the Lexicon of Trade Jargon ?
1:55 PM
  Malina M. Nielson and Cynthia Hallen   Defining Emily Dickinson’s Place Names
2:20 PM
  Karen Stollznow   When Opposites Attract: The Re-appropriation and Amelioration of Words in Australian English


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