Newsletter Fall 2024

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Newsletter Fall 2024 Table of Contents Member & Dictionary News Conference Update (Lisa Berglund) CFP: 2025 DSNA Project Grants In Memoriam: Reinhard R. K. Hartmann Upcoming Conferences Publication Information Member & Dictionary News What have you been up to? The DSNA loves to share news of member projects, publications, programs, and more! Please send your news to dsnaadmin@gmail.com for inclusion; deadline for submissions for the Spring 2025 issue is Monday 24 March 2025. You can also see and share what’s happening on DSNA’s Member Forum, Facebook, and X/Twitter.  A flock of DSNA members have contributed to Edward Finegan and Michael Adams' forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary: "Bringing together cutting-edge research from a team of experts, this Handbook provides an all-encompassing account of dictionaries in context. It considers the cultural, social, intellectual and book history of dictionaries, as well as why they are made, and how they are edited, designed and published." (Preorder and discount information available here.) Alexander K. Bocast would like to announce one recent publication and one...
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2025 Project Grants

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We are pleased to announce that the Dictionary Society of North America will award small grants in 2025 in support of practical or scholarly lexicographic projects by independent researchers, dictionary makers, and early-career scholars. The awards aim to support existing projects for which a small grant would make a substantial difference in bringing the project to a more advanced stage or to completion. The grants may be used to support purchase of necessary resources, including travel in order to gather research or data. We welcome projects regarding any facet of lexicography, including but not limited to dictionaries or glossaries of any language or languages (including indigenous or minority languages) or scholarship regarding dictionaries or lexicography of any language or era. DSNA will make one or two awards, not exceeding $2,500 each.Applications comprise three items: 1) a description (not to exceed 1,200 words) of the overall project, indicating what has been accomplished to date, what remains to be completed, and what the award funds...
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Newsletter Spring 2024

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Newsletter Spring 2024 Table of Contents Society Announcement: DSNA25 in Buffalo President's Message (Kory Stamper) Member & Dictionary News In Memoriam: Patrick Hanks (Orin Hargraves) In Memoriam: Philip M. Rideout (Michael Adams) Upcoming Conferences Publication Information Society Announcement: DSNA25 in Buffalo Buffalo State University and the University at Buffalo will host the 25th biennial meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America, May 28–31, 2025, in Buffalo, New York. Conference chairs Lisa Berglund and Walter Hakala are already planning an exciting conference in celebration of the Society's 50th anniversary! President's Message Though it's an "off" and conference-less year for the DSNA at large, there are some big changes afoot. The first and foremost is that Dictionaries, our journal, will be joining Project MUSE's open-access pilot program, Subscribe2Open, or S2O for short. This innovative program will run from 2025–27, and all the issues of Dictionaries published during the program will be fully open access. In exchange, MUSE offers participating publishers a guaranteed minimum royalty for every year of participation. Our Executive Board and Publications...
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Newsletter Fall 2023

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Newsletter Fall 2023 Table of Contents Member & Dictionary News Conference Report (Orin Hargraves) A Life of Lexicography (Edward Finegan) CFP: Dictionaries Special Issue on "Talking Back to the Dictionary" Column: Quotations (Elizabeth Knowles) In Memoriam: Ari Kernerman (Ilan Ketrnerman, Michael Rundell) Upcoming Conferences Upcoming Events Publication Information Member & Dictionary News What have you been up to? The DSNA loves to share news of member projects, publications, programs, and more! Please send your news to dsna.membernews@gmail.com for inclusion; deadline for submissions for the Spring 2024 issue is Monday 25 March 2024. You can also see and share what’s happening on DSNA’s Member Forum, Facebook, and Twitter.  Helen Zaltzman's The Allusionist, a podcast about language, features DSNA 24 presenters in recent episodes: Sterling Martin (Allusionist 180. Project ENABLE) and Lindsay Rose Russell (Allusionist 181. Cairns); George Aaron Broadwell forthcoming. Paul Schaffner has sent news of the recent update to the Middle English Dictionary: The Middle English Dictionary is pleased to announce that corrections and improvements made to the Dictionary during the last three years...
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Newsletter Spring 2022

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Newsletter Spring 2022 Table of Contents Society Announcement: Project GrantsMember NewsColumn: Quotations by Elizabeth KnowlesColumn: Michael Hancher Retiring from Classroom Lectern by Edward FineganIn Memoriam: Allan Metcalf by Joan HallUpcoming ConferencesNews from the DSNA Office by Lindsay Rose RussellReport from DSNA's Globalex Representative Orin HargravesReport from DSNA's ACLS Delegate Jack LynchPublication Information Society Announcement: Project Grants The Dictionary Society of North America will award small grants in support of practical or scholarly lexicographic projects by independent researchers, dictionary makers, and early-career scholars. The awards aim to support existing projects for which a small grant would make a substantial difference in bringing the project to a more advanced stage or to completion. The grants may be used to support purchase of necessary resources, including travel to sites to gather data from libraries or native speakers. While awards are not limited as to language, projects related to Indigenous languages of the Americas are encouraged. DSNA will make one or two awards, not exceeding $2,500 each. Applications comprise three...
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2022 Project Grants

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The Dictionary Society of North America will award small grants in support of practical or scholarly lexicographic projects by independent researchers, dictionary makers, and early-career scholars. The awards aim to support existing projects for which a small grant would make a substantial difference in bringing the project to a more advanced stage or to completion. The grants may be used to support purchase of necessary resources, including travel to sites to gather data from libraries or native speakers. While awards are not limited as to language, projects related to Indigenous languages of the Americas are encouraged. DSNA will make one or two awards, not exceeding $2,500 each. Applications comprise three items: 1) a description (not to exceed 1,200 words) of the overall project, indicating what has been accomplished to date, what remains to be completed, and what the award funds would cover or enable; 2) a list of other sources of support for the project that have been secured or are...
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Lexicom

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<Lexicom/>  A workshop in lexicography and lexical computingAfter last year’s unavoidable cancellation, we are happy to announce that the Lexicom Workshop will run again this year. Participant numbers will be limited to just 20 (to ensure social distancing) and we have a very flexible cancellation policy. Jesus College, Cambridge, UK20 – 24 September 2021 Your 5 days to get up-to-date with the latest developments incorpus-driven lexicography and to activate and enhance yourcorpus building and corpus query skills with some of the top experts in the field. Check the programme, lecturers and invited speakers on the website lexicom.courses ...
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Call for papers: Children’s dictionaries

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Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America invites submissions for a special issue focused on the topic of Children’s Dictionaries, edited by Susan Rennie. Children’s dictionaries have a long history within the practice of lexicography, from Renaissance dictionaries compiled to aid the learning of Latin to the latest dictionary apps designed for use in schools. In content and style they are enormously varied, ranging from pedagogical dictionaries written for classroom use to whimsical glossaries of words in children’s fiction; and they span a wide age range from first word books and picture dictionaries to dictionaries aimed at high-school students. A children’s dictionary is very different to an adult dictionary of the same size and headword count; and decisions over which words are allowed into, or excluded from, children’s dictionaries can be emotive. More weight may be given to words used in fiction, and less to slang and current buzzwords. Definitions and usage examples will reflect the experience of children rather than grown-ups;...
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