DSNA 2009 Biennial Meeting website

Registration information for the 2009 biennial meeting of DSNA is now available on the meeting website--click on the link in the sidebar. An updated version of the meeting program will be posted soon.

For those who prefer their conference information the old-fashioned way, hard copies of the Bloomington Meeting materials are included with the spring newsletter, which will be mailed next week.

Johnson at 300: A Houghton Library Symposium

For more information on the symposium, scheduled for 27-29 August, visit the Houghton Library website at:

http://tinyurl.com/dmmr7y

Dictionaries 29 (2008) Table of Contents

The 2008 edition of Dictionaries has been published and mailed to DSNA members.

Articles

“The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing Tramlines: James Murray's legacy and the 1933 OED Supplement,” by Sara Ogilvie

“How the American Dialect Society Chooses Its Words of the Year,” by Wayne Glowka

Reference Works in Progress

“Arabic Lexical: Contributions to the English Language,” by Garland Cannon and Wyoma vanDuinkerken

Book Reviews

Middle English Dictionary Plan and Bibliography, 2nd edition. Reviewed by Michael Adams

Johnson's and Webster's Verbal Examples With Special Reference to Exemplifying Usage in Dictionary Entries by Kusujiro Miyoshi. Reviewed by Sidney Landau

Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained. Reviewed by William Frawley

Dictionary Visions, Research and Practice: Selected papers from the 12th International Symposium on Lexicography, Copenhagen 2004. Reviewed by Anatoly Liberman

An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction by Anatoly Liberman. Reviewed by Allan Bomhard

The Last Word: The English Language, Opinions and Prejudices by Laurence Urdang. Reviewed by Erin McKean

Letter to the Editor: On Grep. By Edward Reingold

2009 DSNA Award Winner Named

The DSNA Award for 2009 has been presented to Paul Cook, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Mr. Cook is working on computational methods for identifying automatically the patterns of language in a given electronic text that surround its neologisms. Once refined, these methods could provide an excellent shortcut for lexicographers. This award is offered in memory of Laurence Urdang, who funded all previous winners.

For more information on the DSNA Award, click on the link in the sidebar.