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[[FrontPage]] *AFRILEX2013 Preconference workshop [#u0c279ed] -Fieldwork Practices in Lexicography --Jacques Van Keymeulen (Gent Univeristy, Belgium) ---historical linguistics ---dialect lexicographer **Dictionary of Flemish dialect [#dce2f9a1] -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? [#x08f9896] -sociological notion --selection --codification --function --acceptance **Dialect lexicography [#m21378ea] -Flemish = Belgium Dutch; a dialect group in the south-west of the Dutch language area -Brabantic -Limburgian -Zeelandic ***Word loss [#sc40d08a] -Lexicon is the first language component to be affected. ***Material loss [#bc645704] -Changes in technology --disappearance of traditional tools or instruments --disappearance of buildings or all the related terms **Thematical dialect lexicography [#he4ada61] -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 -Aims --Collect --Preserve --Publish -Sources --200 collaborators --geographical points for questionnaire surveys. **Input in the datebase [#xa30b0a8] -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 [#r140250a] -Ethnology enriches the description of lexicography *Preparation in Fieldwork [#cc452165] -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; Civilization is passed onto the next generation by women. ---people born before the world war II are usually chosen, otherwise so many external factors (modernization, media influence) will affect informants' language. -Methods of fieldwork may vary according to language component: --Macrostructure ---lexicon ---semantics --Microstructure -self-observation --describe your own language --one cannot always trust one's own knowledge --control necessary -observations of spontaneous speech --notebook-method --high validity of the data --important for the closed word categories --hard to systematize observations -systematic fieldwork --recording and transcribing free speech ---interview about a specific topic ---unified transcription protocol needed ---metadata should be recorded ---orthographical transcriptions --lexicographical questionnaires ---oral interview ---investigation by correspondence (indirect method) ---contact language dialect (oral) -Onomasiological questions --What is the word for X? -Semasiological question --Do you know word X and what does it mean?
