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The lexicography of indigenous languages in Australia and the Pacific

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The Australia and Pacific region is home to nearly a quarter of the world’s languages. Wordlists of a few of these languages date back to the first European explorers, while detailed dictionaries have been prepared for somewhere less than 5 % of them. Where an indigenous language is the official language of a country of this region it is more likely to have a dictionary and ongoing administrative support for lexicographic work, and, in a few cases, a corpus from which terms can be sourced. For most indigenous languages dictionaries are prepared in the course of language documentation efforts by researchers from outside of the speech community, using modern lexicographic database tools and resulting in structured lexicons. As a result, it is possible to produce various output formats of these dictionaries, including print-on-demand, multimodal webpages, and mobile devices as increasingly popular methods of delivery. A major use of these dictionaries can be to support vernacular language programs in schools. This region was a test bed for computational bilingual lexicography, and is home to the two largest comparative lexical databases of indigenous languages.

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This chapter was written while I was funded by Australian Research Council grant DP0984419. Thanks to the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cologne for hosting me during 2013, and to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for awarding me a Ludwig Leichhardt Jubilee Fellowship. Thanks to David Nash and Mary Boyce for very helpful comments and to Wolfgang Sperlich for providing a copy of his work.

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Thieberger, N. (2015). The lexicography of indigenous languages in Australia and the Pacific. In: Hanks, P., de Schryver, GM. (eds) International Handbook of Modern Lexis and Lexicography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45369-4_92-1

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