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Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights
Edited by Luna Filipović and Martin Pütz
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 42] 2016
► pp. 361–386

Redefining priorities, methods and standards in endangered-language lexicography

From lexical erosion in Palikur to areal lexicography

| University of Orléans
| University of Orléans

Based on our ten-year fieldwork on Palikur (Arawakan) in French Guyana, this paper discusses the need for researchers (assisted by native speakers) to devote more time and energy to documenting the lexicons of endangered languages (EL) and the urgency to focus on the parts of the lexicon that are subject to strong lexical erosion, in order to allow the transmission of saved knowledge to younger generations. It also describes the main difficulties in documenting these sections of the lexicon and advocates the need for new principles, methods and standards in EL lexicography so as to obtain more complete and satisfactory information for interdisciplinary work, for tool, knowledge and content sharing, and finally for dismissing an all-or-nothing approach according to which incomplete lexicographical descriptions and knowledge should not be published.

Keywords: Amazonia, biolexicon, dictionary, documentation, endangered language/s, lexical erosion, lexicography, lexicon, Palikur, transmission
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Published online: 3 October 2016
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