Chapter 11. What does it take to make an ethnographic dictionary? On the treatment of fish and tree names in dictionaries of Oceanic languages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface. Ulrike Mosel’s contribution to documentary linguistics XI
4. Chapter 1. Introduction: Documenting endangered languages before, during, and after the DoBeS programme 1
5. Part I. Theoretical issues in language documentation
6. Chapter 2. Competing motivations for documenting endangered languages 17
7. Chapter 3. Evolving challenges in archiving and data infrastructures 33
8. Chapter 4. Comparing corpora from endangered language projects: Explorations in language typology based on original texts 55
9. Part II. Documenting language structure
10. Chapter 5. “Words” in Kharia – Phonological, morpho-syntactic and “orthographical” aspects 89
11. Chapter 6. Aspect in Forest Enets and other Siberian indigenous languages – when grammaticography and lexicography meet different metalanguages 121
12. Chapter 7. Documentary linguistics and prosodic evidence for the syntax of spoken language 151
13. Chapter 8. Diphthongology meets language documentation: The Finnish experience 177
14. Chapter 9. Retelling data: Working on transcription 201
15. Part III. Documenting the lexicon
16. Chapter 10. The making of a multimedia encyclopaedic lexicon for and in endangered speech communities 223
17. Chapter 11. What does it take to make an ethnographic dictionary? On the treatment of fish and tree names in dictionaries of Oceanic languages 263
18. Part IV. Interaction with speech communities
19. Chapter 12. Language is power: The impact of fieldwork on community politics 291
20. Chapter 13. Sustaining Vurës: Making products of language documentation accessible to multiple audiences 305
21. Chapter 14. Filming with native speaker commentary 321
22. Index 339