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J. Edward Gates: Living HistoryThe DSNA Fellows: Profile Number Four

by Victoria Neufeldt

This is the fourth in a series of profiles of Fellows ofthe DSNA. Provision for the category of Fellow, torecognize notable contributors to the field of lexicog-raphy, had been established in the Society’s constitu-tion of 1979, and the first Fellows were named in 1983.Edward Gates joined their ranks in 1989. One otherFellow was named that year: David B. Guralnik, whodied in 2000. The information for the followingaccount comes mostly from biographical materialssupplied by Ed.

Last year marked the 30th anniversary of the forma-tion of the Dictionary Society. Edward Gates, the subjectof this fourth profile of Society Fellows, is one of the 25official founders of the Society and also a member of thatsmall group of people who a few years earlier had firstfloated the idea of starting such an organization. So itseemed fitting to give the profile of Edward Gates pride ofplace on page one. Ed is the only founding member whohas remained continuously active and involved in the Soci-ety to the present day. Even during the year he spent inGermany as a Fulbright scholar (Fulbright Senior Professorat the Institute of English Studies in the University ofRegensburg), he still kept in touch via correspondence. Hehas served as editor of the Newsletter (1977-1988), secre-tary-treasurer (1981-1989), and president (1997-1999); hewas also president of the founding group that establishedthe Society (1975-1977).

Ed says that he got into lexicography by accident

(this seems tobe a not un-common wayfor people toget into thefield!). As hetells it, “AfterI finished my course work for a Ph.D. in theology at Har-vard, I needed to find work to support myself and myfamily. Harvard had an employment office where therewere resources for that. I looked over the notices andfound one that looked interesting — the G. & C. MerriamCompany in Springfield [MA] were looking for an editorto write definitions. I got an interview with the head edi-tor, Philip Gove, and got the job. It was after two years ofmentoring by a senior editor and of practice before I feltthat I knew what I was doing. But I enjoyed it.”

He stayed for six years, then left to resume work onhis Ph.D. at Hartford Seminary. He had been pursuing thestudy of Christian ethics, intending to teach, but wasinspired by an introductory linguistics course taught by H.A. Gleason, Jr. to switch to linguistics. With his practicalbackground in lexicography and his new linguistics Ph.D.,he decided that what he really wanted to teach was lexi-cography. After helping Gleason with a dictionary of lin-guistic terminology at Hartford and at the University ofToronto, he found a job at Indiana State University devel-

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DSNA XVIThe 16th biennial meeting of the DSNA will be heldJune 13 – 16, 2007 at the Oriental Institute at the Uni-

versity of Chicago. See page 2 for instructions for sub-mitting a paper. Information about registration andaccommodation will be published in the Fall issue ofthe Newsletter. Contact person for the conference is

Erin McKean at editor@verbatimmag.com

Ed Gates in July, 2006. Photo taken by his son Will.

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News of MembersGrant Barrett’s Official Dictionary of Unofficial English hasrecently been published by McGraw–Hill. He describesthe book as “largely a collection of words from the fringesof English, terms that, at the time of compilation, tendednot to appear in mainstream dictionaries. These un- andunder-documented words include slang, jargon, and collo-quial expressions, some going back hundreds of years.”

Julie Coleman has a son, born 18 May 2005. His name isPatrick James Coleman Denton. This news was unfortu-nately received too late to make it into last fall’s issue.Nevertheless, we extend our heartiest (belated) congratula-tions to the whole family.

Andrew Hawke is an assistant editor and systems manag-er of the University of Wales’ Dictionary of the Welsh Lan-guage, which was recently hailed as one of “100 major dis-coveries, developments and inventions made in UK uni-versities during the last 50 years that have impacted on theworld.” This accolade can be found in Eureka UK, recentlypublished by Universities UK. Andrew has been on thestaff of the dictionary since 1983. He was responsible forcomputerizing the project in 1985–87 and typesetting thelast two volumes. Since then, he has continued to draftentries. He reports that they are now examining ways toconvert the data to XML and are searching for a suitabledictionary writing system. Our congratulations to him andhis colleagues.

Before podcast became a “word of the moment,” new mem-ber Charles Hodgson says he had the shoe on the otherfoot. His podcast “podictionary” spends two or three min-utes every day exploring a different well known word, itsetymology, and related trivia. His web site: www.podic-tionary.com

DSNA XVI Call for PapersInterested members are invited to submit an abstract

for a 20-minute paper on any aspect of dictionaries or lexi-cography, to present at our 16th biennial meeting in Chica-go, June 13-16, 2007. Abstracts should be limited to onepage. Submissions will be processed for anonymousreview.

Send submissions to editor@verbatimmag.com andinclude your name, institutional or professional affiliationif applicable, paper title, complete mailing and e-mailaddresses, phone and fax numbers. On the subject line ofyour e-mail, type: “DSNA16 Abstract.” Please indicate anyaudio-visual needs at the bottom of the abstract.

Abstracts can be submitted as Word, WordPerfect, ortxt attachments or in the body of the e-mail. All selectedabstracts will be printed in the conference handbook.Receipt of abstracts will be confirmed. (If, in the unlikelyevent you receive a bounce message indicating your e-mailwas rejected, try submitting to erin@logocracy.com.).

More Early American Newspapers Digitized

Over 700 American newspapers from 1690–1876(nearly 350,000 issues) are now available in a fully search-able digital edition. Titled Early American Newspapers,Series I, 1690–1876, the database was created mainly fromthe holdings of the American Antiquarian Society inWorcester, MA. It was published by Readex, a publisherof Web-based, primary-source materials in the humanitiesand social sciences, in cooperation with the AAS. The col-lection focuses mainly on the 18th century, includingnewspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.Readex reports that users can view, magnify, print, andsave items and search by categories such as news andopinion, letters, poetry, legislative acts, advertisements,and death notices.

The collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s His-tory and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690–1820 andother authoritative bibliographies. As part of the Ameri-ca’s Historical Newspapers collection, Early AmericanNewspapers, Series I, 1690–1876 shares a common inter-face with Early American Newspapers, Series II, 1758-1900and Early American Newspapers, Series III, 1829-1922.

For more information on the digital edition of EarlyAmerican Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876 or the Archiveof Americana, visit www.readex.com

Laurence Urdang–DSNA AwardThe 2006 Laurence Urdang–DSNA Award has two

winners: Dr. Joan Hall, chief editor of the Dictionary ofAmerican Regional English at the University ofWisconsin–Madison, and David D. Robertson, of the Chinook-Jargon shorthand project at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

Joan Hall will use her award for the very importantand painstaking job of verification of entries in the forth-coming fifth volume of DARE. Graduate students aretrained as project assistants for this task. Because the Uni-versity funds only nine months of this work, the Awardwill help fill a crucial gap by supplying the funding forpart of this summer.

David Robertson is in the process of describing theshorthand alphabet of Chinook Jargon and creating aCJ–English/English–CJ lexicon. He has amassed the mostcomplete collection of shorthand CJ materials in existence,including several previously-undescribed sources (Nativegrave markers, letters, and marginalia) as well as approxi-mately 2,500 pages of mimeographed texts associated withthe missionary newspaper Kamloops Wawa (1891-1924). Hewill apply his Award to funding a research assistant.

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oping a lexicography teaching program to complement theuniversity’s newly established Cordell Collection of Oldand Rare Dictionaries.

That was in 1970. Dare we say that the rest is histo-

ry? Ed says that that appointment led to the formation ofthe Dictionary Society and his long association with it.

Ed had already been in contact with a number of peo-ple who had expressed an interest in starting a society forthe study of the history of dictionaries. Paul S. Koda, thenhead of the Department of Rare Books at the CunninghamMemorial Library of Indiana State University, and EdGates organized a colloquium on lexicography at ISU inMay 1975 that turned out to be the formation meeting ofthe DSNA. Twenty-five people participated. The threecentral planners — the late James L. Rosier, professor ofEnglish philology at the University of Pennsylvania, PaulKoda, and Ed Gates — met before the actual colloquiumbegan, to discuss the proposal. James Rosier, who wasconducting the colloquium, made the motion for the estab-lishment of “The Society for the Study of Dictionaries andLexicography” with its administrative base to be at IndianaState. The motion carried and our Society was born.

During his time at ISU he also made a point whiletraveling of visiting dictionary offices in the U.S., England,and Scotland, to meet with the editors. He also attendedlexicography conferences abroad — including the one atExeter at which Euralex was founded, in 1983. Its founderwas Reinhard Hartmann, who had visited ISU a year or soearlier. Ed says, “I requested that their meetings comple-ment ours, so that members of each could convenientlyattend the meetings of the other — as some of us havedone.”

The lexicography program at ISU continued for Ed’stenure at the university, from 1970 till 1989, when heretired. There never were many students majoring in lexi-cography, but a number of graduate students upgradingtheir English-teaching skills took the basic lexicology andlexicography courses (“I hope they became better preparedto use dictionaries and teach dictionary use,” he said) anda number of undergraduates preparing to be Englishteachers also took one of the courses. But when he retired,the program was discontinued — a pity, since the programhad been a condition of the establishment of the CordellCollection at ISU.

Beginning with his career at ISU, Ed has also carriedon a lot of correspondence over the years about lexicogra-phy. People often wrote asking him to evaluate things

they had written on lexicography — one even asked himhow to make a dictionary! — and he often sent lengthyreplies. He also has written many an evaluation of propos-als for papers, etc.

In summing up his life in lexicography, Ed Gatessays, “I am grateful to Warren Cordell, who provided theoccasion for the lexicography program at ISU, and to Dr.George Smock, who undertook to have a lexicography pro-gram and hired me, for providing me with a long andrewarding career.”

In another dimension of Ed’s lexicographical work,he has served as a member of the usage panel on TheAmerican Heritage Dictionary of the English Language sincethe second edition. And he is also one of our foremost col-lector members: over the years, he built a very respectablecollection of various kinds of dictionaries, both historical

and contemporary, as well as books on lexicography.Some of the dictionaries he acquired were useful to him asteaching models. In recent years, he has made significantcontributions to the Cordell Collection, as we learn inDavid Vancil’s column in this issue.

In addition to his official lexicographical work at ISU,Ed has also been an active member and staunch supporterof DSNA throughout its life. As mentioned above, he wasthere at the very inception of the organization, and he hasattended every meeting since, except for 1989, when hewas in Germany on the Fulbright. He has initiated a num-ber of things in the Society and has set up and served oncommittees, both when he was on the Society’s executiveand when he was not, and generally been a fount ofknowledge about lexicographical matters. We hope thathe will still be able to carry out his long-time ambition ofwriting a history of the DSNA. It would be a fittingcrowning achievement.

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Ed and Marion at a dinner hosted by Ron Butters, the eveningbefore the meeting in Durham, NC in 2003.

A night out on the town during the meet-ing in Philadelphia in 1987. From left:

Carl Hattery, Ed, Justyn Moulds, and Vic-toria Neufeldt. Marion took the picture.

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Cordell address: http://library.indstate.edu/level1.dir/cml/rbsc/cordell/cordell-idx.html David Vancil: Libvanc@isugw.indstate.edu

Cordell Cornerby David Vancil

I'm sorry to have missed everyone in Boston. I cantell everyone had a great time. But I was able to see two ofthe presenters immediately afterward in Terre Haute asdual recipients of a Cordell Research Fellowship. RodMcConchie of the University of Helsinki returned a secondtime to peruse sixteenth-century dictionaries for his contri-bution to an Oxford UP book coming out on the subject.He was with us for a week and accomplished a great deal.Since then we have followed up by supplying a fewimages to Rod from sixteenth-century tomes. In additionto Rod, we were thrilled to host Polish scholar Mira Pod-hajecka of the University of Opole for two weeks, as shefamiliarized herself with hundreds of early English dic-tionaries for a background chapter she is writing for aforthcoming book on Polish metalexicography. This wasMira’s first trip to the United States. I made a video ofRod and Mira in which I briefly interviewed them abouttheir use of the collection and have with the assistance ofour tech people produced it as a Windows Media movie.Anyone who is curious about the movie, let me know.

Cordell Family ConnectionBarbara Cordell, daughter of Warren and Suzanne,

visited the collection in the last few days of September. Itwas great fun to show her some of the books which sheremembered from the collection. She also conferred withus on the development of the holdings and found onlypositive things to say about the fellowship. The familyremains interested in the collection and committed to itsmission.

Early Modern English Database and the Cordell Collection

In February, I was asked to serve on the advisoryboard of Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME). Ofcourse, I agreed. How the creation of the massive databaseof words from hundreds of sources will affect use of theCordell Collection remains to be seen, but users lookingfor word meanings in particular sources usually contact usrather than visiting us, anyway. Most researchers comingto ISU are doing analysis and comparisons that mightprove difficult to conduct in a database, so it looks as if theLEME and the Cordell Collection will be great comple-ments to one another.

Italian Conference on Lexicology and LexicographyI was recently invited by Professor Giovanni Iamarti-

no of the University of Milan to gave a paper at “Glossari,Dizionari, Corpora: Lessicologia e Lessicografia delleLingue Europee” held at Gargnano del Garda (Brescia).My paper, which I gave on May 26th, was entitled “Lexi-cology and Beyond: Mining the Word Hoard in the CordellCollection of Dictionaries.” Another plenary speaker inEnglish besides myself was John Considine, who spoketwice, once on dying languages in the English-speakingworld before 1900. There were over 50 sessions whichwere given in a number of Romance languages. Perhaps

I’ll have the opportunity to let you know more about thisconference in a future column. I learned from ProfessorIamartino that Rod McConchie was one of their plenaryspeakers last year. Since there seem to be relatively fewopportunities for historical papers on language, some ofyou may appreciate learning about this event.

Edward Gates’ Donations to the CollectionIn closing, I want to take this opportunity to thank

Edward Gates, formerly of Indiana State University, forthe gifts of books and papers he has donated in the lastseveral years. Any acquisition is significant, but in lookingat Ed’s papers, I see that he has assembled some very use-ful research materials. A book that Ed donated that I amparticularly grateful for is the 1861 edition of Roget’s The-saurus. This allows researchers to make continuous com-parisons through several editions, including the first(1852), which, in the case of the Cordell copy, was ownedand annotated by Peter Mark Roget himself.

Title page of the first edition of Roget’s Thesaurus, 1852. The size ofthe book is 24 cm x 15 cm. This is the Cordell copy, which wasannotated by Peter Roget himself. Photo courtesy of D. Vancil.

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A detail of the first page of the Cordell copyof the 1852 edition, showing Roget’s anno-tations and his handwritten tabs, referringto numbered concepts. Photo courtesy ofD. Vancil.

Cordell Research Fellowship recipientsRod McConchie and Mira Podhajecka,in the Cordell room. Photo courtesy ofD. Vancil.

NEH Funding IncreaseOn May 18th, the House of Representatives passed

an amendment to increase funding for the NationalEndowment for the Humanities by $5 million above thePresident’s request and the level recommended by theHouse Appropriations Committee. This would bring totalfunding proposed for the NEH by the House to a level of$146 million. The amendment also provides an additional$5 million for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Anne-Imelda Radice Sworn in as IMLS DirectorVice President Cheney swore in Dr. Anne-Imelda

Radice as new director of the Institute of Museum andLibrary Services (IMLS) on May 19, 2006. Most recently,she was the acting assistant chairman for programs at theNational Endowment for the Humanities. She has alsoserved as chief of staff to the secretary of the Departmentof Education and acting chairman and senior deputy chair-man of the National Endowment for the Arts.

IMLS is an independent agency of the U.S. govern-ment and is the main source of federal funding for the122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums in this country.Directors are appointed by the President and confirmed bythe Senate for four-year terms. The position alternatesbetween library and museum professionals. Dr. Radicesucceeds Dr. Robert Martin, a library professional.

New President ElectedJohn Churchill was recently elected as the new presi-

dent of the NHA. He succeeds Robert Vaughan, who com-pleted his second full term as president this spring. Dr.Churchill has been a member of the NHA board since2001. Most recently, he served as chair of the membershipcommittee. Before assuming his current role, Churchillwas vice president for academic affairs and dean of thecollege at Hendrix College, where he also served as profes-sor of philosophy and twice as interim president.

National Humanities Alliance News

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Books of Lexicographic InterestBooks received by DSNA to May, 2006

Dazell, Tom, & Terry Victor. The New Partridge Dictionaryof Slang and Unconventional English. Vol I, A-I; vol. II, J-Z. Routledge, 2005.

Hitchings, Henry. Defining the World: The extraordinaryStory of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary. New York: Farrar,Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Levy, Ya'acov, ed. Oxford Mini Dictionary: English/Hebrew--Hebrew/English. Jerusalem: Kernerman Publishing andLonnie Kahn Publishing, 2006.

Levy, Ya'acov, ed. Oxford Essential Dictionary:English/Hebrew--Hebrew/English. Jerusalem: KernermanPublishing and Lonnie Kahn Publishing, 2006.

Knowles, Elizabeth, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Phrase andFable. new ed. Oxford, New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 2005.

Newton, Harry. Newton’s Telecom Dictionary, 22nd Ed. SanFrancisco: CMP Books, 2006.

Peckham, Aaron, compiler. Urban Dictionary: FulariousStreet Slang Defined. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel,2006.

vanden Heuvel, Katrina. Dictionary of Republicanisms. NewYork: Nation Books, 2005.

LEXICOGRAPHICADyka, Susanne. Probleme der Differenzierung im deutsch-

englischen Wörterbuch für Deutsche. Series Maior 127.Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2005.

Heinz, Michaela. L’exemple lexicographique dans les diction-naires français contemporains: Actes des “PremièresJournées allema” Series Maior 128. Tübingen: MaxNiemeyer Verlag, 2005.

Mückel, Wenke. Trübners Deutsches Wörterbuch (Band 1-4):ein Wörterbuch aus der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus: Einelexicographische Analyse der ersten vier Bände (erschienen1939-1943). Series Maior 125. Tübingen: Max Niemey-er Verlag, 2005.

Steinbügl, Birgit. Deutsch-englische Kollokationen: Erfassungin zweisprachigen Wörterbüchern und Grenzen der korpus-basierten Analyse. Series Maior 126. Tübingen: MaxNiemeyer Verlag, 2005.

Wiegand, Herbert Ernst, ed. Untersuchungen zur kom-merziellen Lexikographie der deutschen GegenwartsspracheII. Series Maior 121. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag,2005.

Other recent publications (information from Edward Gates)

From the Max Niemeyer Verlag catalogue, new in 2006: Rehbock, Helmut. CD-ROM–Ausgabe, Deutsches Wörter-

buch. (Dictionary of German on CD-ROM. The Etymol-ogy and Structure of German Vocabulary). MaxNiemeyer Verlag, 2006. Near-complete text of the 10thedition of Hermann Paul’s German dictionary(1992/2002), edited by Helmut Henne, Heidrun Käm-per, and Georg Objartel. Includes an “abundance ofhyperlinks, numerous text-search, marking, and note-saving functions and quick access to 48,000 headwords.”

Schützeicher, Rudolf, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, 6.Auflage. Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2006. Vocabulary froma corpus of 84 literary texts. About 440 pages. Includesentries from Schützeicher’s Althochdeutscher und Alt-sächsicher Glossenwortschatze (12 vols, 2004).

Zgusta, Ladislav, Lexicography Then and Now: SelectedEssays. Edited by Frederick F. M. Dolezal and ThomasB. I. Creamer. Lexicographica Series Maior, Band 129.About 370 pp.

Web Sites of Lexicographical InterestFrom member Erin McKean, via the DSNA discussion list:a site that keeps track of death notices: http://whosaliveandwhosdead.com/ Erin says you canbrowse categories, recent deaths, new listings, and today’sbirthdays or search the alphabetical list.

Also from Erin, again via the DSNA discussion list: a sitewith weekly reviews of new Internet sites, by MarylaineBlock. She calls it “Neat New Stuff I Found This Week”.http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html

Members Orin Hargraves and Paul Heacock discussed onthe DSNA discussion list an on-line dictionary derivedfrom Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published1913, supplemented by WordNet, “a semantic network cre-ated by the Cognitive Science Department of PrincetonUniversity under the direction of Prof. George Miller andis being updated and supplemented by an open coalitionof volunteer collaborators from around the world.” Thesite includes links to other dictionary databases.http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict

Anne Dykstra sent notice to the DSNA discussion list ofthe online Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project<http://www.indo-european.nl/>. The project is super-vised by Alexander Lubotsky and Robert Beekes. The aimof the project is threefold: 1) to compile etymological data-bases containing the inherited vocabulary of various Indo-European branches and to publish them on the Internet; 2)to create an Indo-European etymological database on theInternet; 3) to compile a new Indo-European etymologicaldictionary, which will replace Julius Pokorny’s Indogerman-isches etymologisches Wörterbuch (Bern: Francke, 1959).

Recent ConferencesEleventh International Afrilex Conference, July5-7,

2006, at U. of Venda for Science and Technology, Tho-hoyandou, South Africa. Conference theme was “The userperspective in lexicography”. Keynote speakers: Prof.Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak (Poland) and Prof. HerbertChimhundu (Zimbabwe). Local Conference Organiser wasMr S.L. Tshikota, Editor-in-Chief of the Tshivenda Nation-al Lexicography Unit, University of Venda for Science andTechnology, Private Bag X5050, Thohoyandou, 0950Republic of South Africa. Tel.: +27 (0) 15 962 8327. Fax: +27(0) 15 962 8327. E-mail: stshikota@yahoo.com

Note that Afrilex has a new web address:http://afrilex.africanlanguages.com/

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Dictionary of CanadianismsWork on 2nd Edition Begun

Work has begun on a fully revised and expanded edi-tion of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles,first published y W.J. Gage Limited, Toronto, in 1967. Theeditorial board of the first edition comprised Walter S.Avis, editor in chief; Charles Crate; Patrick Drysdale; Dou-glas Leechman; Matthew H. Scargill;, and, until his deathin 1960, Charles Lovell. The intention at the time of itspublication was to revise and update it regularly, but noth-ing was ever attempted, until now.

The DCHP-2 project commenced on March 1, 2006, inoffices in Vancouver and will relocate to the University ofBritish Columbia’s Department of English in August 2006.Funding has been provided by several institutions: Thom-son Nelson Publishers, Toronto; several University ofVienna units — Research Service and International Rela-tions, the Dean’s Office at the Department of Humanitiesand the Department of English; the University of BritishColumbia’s Department of English; the Canadian Embassyin Vienna; and the Strathy Language Unit, Queen’s Uni-versity, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

The major phase is scheduled to start in May 2007.DCHP-2 is designed as a 5-year revision project, with acompletion date by late 2011 and its subsequent publica-tion in 2012.

An academic advisory committee is guiding the edi-tor, Stefan Dollinger, and future staff members, with sup-port from Thomson Nelson publishers.

Members of the committee, per 5 April 2006: Prof.Laurel J. Brinton, UBC, Vancouver; Prof. J.K. Chambers,UofT, Toronto; Prof. Sandra Clarke, MUN, St. John's, Nfld;Prof. Margery Fee, UBC, Vancouver; Prof. T.K. Pratt, UPEI,Charlottetown, PEI; David Friend, Reference Publisher,Thomson Nelson, Toronto.

[Information from the International Society for His-torical Lexicography and Lexicology]

Calendar“Labels and Features in Dictionaries: What Is Their

Future?” Conference, October 21-23, 2006, Univ. ofCyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. (Announced in French as “Lamarque lexicographique: quel avenir?”) Primary purposeof conference is to reflect on the concept of labeling, withrespect to functions of categorization, marginalization, andexclusion. Categories include field labels, labels of place,time, or style, usage notes, synonym and antonym lists,problematic issues in grammar and usage, etc. Organizedby Dept of French Studies and Modern Languages, Univ.of Cyprus, in collaboration with 30th International Confer-ence in Functional Linguistics. The focus is on the French language (French lexicon,French dictionaries, bilingual French-other language dic-tionaries, etc.); conference languages are English, French,and Greek. Three plenary sessions are planned, with Jean-Claude Anscombre (CNRS- Paris), Igor Mel´cuk (Universi-

ty of Montreal) and Bert Peeters (University of Tasmania).Organizing committee (Dept of French Studies & ModernLanguages): Fabienne Baider <fabienne@ucy.ac.cy>, Monique Burston <mburston@ucy.ac.cy>, Efi Lamprou <elamprou@ucy.ac.cy> URL: http://www.ucy.ac.cy/~fabienne/silf.html

Tenth International Symposium on Social Commu-nication, January 22-26, 2007, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba,sponsored by the Center of Applied Linguistics of the San-tiago de Cuba’s branch of the Ministry of Science, Technol-ogy and the Environment. An interdisciplinary symposiumdedicated to the 20th anniversary of its creation. Focus willbe on social communication processes from the points ofview of linguistics, computational linguistics, linguisticsrights, medicine, mass media, and ethnology and folklore.Other sponsors include U. of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba;Pedagogical U. “Frank Pais Garcia”, Santiago de Cuba;African Cultural Center “Fernando Ortiz”, Santiago deCuba; and Provincial Branch of Ministry of Culture, Santi-ago de Cuba, plus institutions in The Netherlands, Austria,Spain, the United Kingdom, and Italy.

Papers were invited on lexicology and lexicographyand also on electronic dictionaries. Official languages ofthe symposium are Spanish, English, French, and Por-tuguese. Contact: Eloina Miyares Bermudez, SecretariaEjecutiva del Comite Organizador, X Simposio Interna-cional Comunicacion Social, Centro de Linguistica Aplica-da, Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre, Santiago de Cuba4, Cuba 0400. Telephones: 53-22-642760, 53-22-656141. E-mail: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu

Donors to DSNA International Fund,1998-2006

Since about 1982, DSNA has had a provision formembers to contribute to an “International Fund” to paythe membership fee for people in other countries who havedifficulty sending U.S. currency. Executive secretaryLuanne von Schneidemesser has provided this list ofdonors since 1998, apparently the first year that donorrecords were kept. Other members had contributed to thefund before that date.

Frank AbateJohn AlgeoCharles AshBeryl T. Sue AtkinWilliam ChisholmGerald CohenAudrey DuckertTimothy EverettEdward GatesJoan Houston HallAlan HartleyAugust Imholz, Jr.Ari Kernerman

Sidney LandauMartha Mayou Jack MorrisWendalyn NicholsBetty PhillipsMary RaineyPhilip RideoutThomas RodgersRichard SpearsLise WinerSummer Institute of

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