Friday, February 16, 2007

Preliminary Conference Schedule

Details subject to change. Prettier version, with links to abstracts, up soon.



Thursday June 14

8:30
Anatoly Liberman
MY HALF-LIFE IN LEXICOGRAPHY
8:55
Frank Abate
The Marketing and Merchandising of Reference Products in the USA and the Rest of the World
9:20
Don R. McCreary
The Microstructure of an American College Desk Dictionary and its Effect on the Comprehension of “Hard Words” by American College Students.
9:45
Muffy Siegel
What Do You Do with a Dictionary? A Study of Undergraduate Dictionary Use
10:10
Johnny Carrera
Webster's Dictionary as Visual Reference

BREAK

11:05
Joe Pickett
Considered and Regarded: Indicators of Belief and Doubt in Dictionary Definitions
11:30
Paul Heacock
Taboo or Not Taboo? That Is the Question!
11:55
Orin Hargraves
Americanization and its Mal-contents

LUNCH

2:00
Gerald Cohen
"Origin of NYC's Nickname 'The Big Apple'; Latest Research on This Topic."
2:25
Anne Dykstra
Buter, bréad ind griene tsjiis Is goed Ingelsk ind goed Friisk
2:50
Lise Winer
Disentangling Etymology and Deciding on Orthography in the Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago
3:15
Ellen Johnson
The Introduction of Sanskrit Loanwords into American English by Yoga Teachers
3:40
August Imholtz
The Mushri-English Pronouncing Dictionary - Some Further ?aughts

BREAK


4:50
Sarah Ogilvie
World English and the OED Supplements: the mysterious case of the vanishing tramlines
5:15
Peter Gilliver
Early American connections with the Oxford English Dictionary, 1859–1884
5:40
Charlotte Brewer
‘Writers and the Dictionary: Auden and the OED’

FRIDAY June 15


8:30
Connie Eble
Louisiana creole: an evolving ethnic label
8:55
Stefan Dollinger and Laurel J. Brinton
Revising the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles in the information age: Some insights from the letter “G”
9:20
Dianne Bardsley
Hermits, Hokonuis, and Huntaways: the distinctive rural New Zealand English lexicon.
9:45
Dan Cristea
Digitization of the thesaurus lexicon of the Romanian language
10:10
Arregi X., Arriola J.M., et al
Semiautomatic Construction of the Electronic Euskal Hiztegia Basque Dictionary (eEHBD)

BREAK


11:05
Orion Montoya
CARE AND FEEDING OF A CORPUS
11:30
Benjamin Zimmer
Charting the Digital Future of Dictionary Research: Prospects for Online Collaborative Lexicography
11:55
Wayne Glowka
The American Dialect Society’s Words of the Year as a Lexicographical Challenge

LUNCH


CORDELL COLLECTION PANEL: 2:00 to 4:20
David McCarter
THE BODY OF JESUS AND THE MIND OF CHRIST: PHYSIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND CHRISTOLOGY IN SCOTT’S REVISION OF BAILEY’S DICTIONARY (1755)

Linda Mitchell
Creating Ethos in Early Modern British Dictionaries

Mira Podhajecka
Edmund Bohun’s Geographical Dictionary (1688): A Study in the 17th Century Geographical Discourse

Monique Cormier
Usage Labels in the Royal Dictionary (1699) by Abel Boyer

Rod McConchie
The simple pleasure of turning pages: The Cordell collection as a research tool

BREAK


4:50
Shlomo Argamon et al
Building A Lexicon for Sentiment Analysis by Automatically Analyzing Dictionary Glosses
5:15
Janet Decesaris
Dictionaries and Phraseology
5:40
Raphael Salkie
Assessing lexicographic relevance: a case study with a translation corpus
6:05
Marco Fiola
Usage Labels for Gender-Linked Language Usage in English and French

SATURDAY June 16


8:30
Elizabeth Knowles
‘Spicing them up with learning and Latin’: changing uses for a dictionary of quotations
8:55
Michael Hancher
Imagining the Dictionary: Evidence from Early English Books Online
9:20
Donna Farina
Russian-English and English-Russian Lexicography in the Nineteenth Century
9:45
Ronald R. Butters
“Life’s Good” Trademark Litigation and Lexicography
10:10
Jesse Sheidlower
"The Quotation Paragraph in Historical Lexicography"

BREAK


PANEL 11:05 to 11:55
Deborah Anderson et al.
Online Dictionaries for Historic and Lesser Known Languages: An Update

11:55
Paul Fallon
Designing a Lexical Database for the Blin Language

LUNCH


2:00
Julie Coleman
Wentworth and Flexner: An American Institution
2:25
Jonathon Green
Dating a Slang Dictionary: 'Historical principles' in a hi-tech world
2:50
Gary Simes
Sexual Lexicography
3:15
Lisa Berglund
The Parrys’ Dictionary: A Bibliographical Case Study for the Classroom
3:40
Salena Sampson
The History of the Genitive its: Examining the Role of Syntactic Information in Diachronic Dictionaries

4:30 to 5:45
New Word Open Mic

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Perhaps you could add the dates to the schedule for us calendar-challenged folks. Thanks.

7:35 AM  
Blogger Erin said...

Excellent idea! Done.

11:16 AM  

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