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AFRILEX2013 Preconference workshop †
- Fieldwork Practices in Lexicography
- Jacques Van Keymeulen (Gent Univeristy, Belgium)
- historical linguistics
- dialect lexicographer
Dictionary of Flemish dialect †
- Dialect continuum
- West Germanic
- West Romance
- North Slavic
- South Slavic
- Scandinavian
- Different pronunciations of lopen (to run)
- French Flanders
- West Flanders
- East Flanders
- Zeeland Flanders
- Dutch vs. Emmen (North Flemish dialect)
Language or dialect? †
- sociological notion
- selection
- codification
- function
- acceptance
Dialect lexicography †
- Flemish = Belgium Dutch; a dialect group in the south-west of the Dutch language area
- Brabantic
- Limburgian
- Zeelandic
Word loss †
- Lexicon is the first language component to be affected.
Material loss †
- Changes in technology
- disappearance of traditional tools or instruments
- disappearance of buildings or all the related terms
Thematical dialect lexicography †
- Weijnen's school (Nijmegen University)
- Three parallel regional dictionaries for the southern Dutch dialects
- Dictionary of the Brabantic Dialects (1960, 1967-2005)
- Dictionary of the Limburgian Dialects (1960, 1983-2008)
- Dictionary of the Flemish Dialects (1972 to present)
- Data collection
- Preparation
- ethnology: studying the realia
- conceptual categorization of the world by the dialect speaker
- inventory of lexical relevant concepts
- Sources
- 200 collaborators
- geographical points for questionnaire surveys.
Input in the datebase †
- Every dialect is put in in its normalized (to a Dutch) headword form.
- e.g. uuflakke in Gent --> hoofdvlakke
- e.g. verkiesges in Mater
Thematical arrangement †
- Ethnology enriches the description of lexicography
Fieldwork †
- How to find informants
- representativeness
- lexical knowledge unevenly distributed
- how to find respondents
- intermediary: school teachers or clergymen
- Profile
- Subjective criteria: motivation/intelligence/linguistic introspection/verbalistic
- Objective criteria: NORM-respondent for dialectology
- NON-MOBILE, OLD, RURAL, MALE (NORM)
- Men are conservative, generally speaking
- Women are vanguards