2011 DSNA Biennial Meeting McGill University

Welcome Letter - DSNA XVIII: Montreal

 
Dear Colleagues,

 It is my honor (and honour) to host the 18th biennial meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America this June, and a special pleasure to welcome all who attend the conference to McGill University and to the city of Montreal. Montreal is a very special place for all kinds of reasons, not least of which is the richesse of our linguistic ambiance! A great place to practice bonjour!

The conference venue is the McGill New Residence. A McGill University student residence during the academic year, it reverts to its original hotel status during the summer months. It is connected to an underground shopping centre that includes a photocopying service, dry-cleaners, a grocery store, a food court, a health club, and a variety of boutiques. We have arranged a special conference price for in-hotel accommodations; you must make your reservations directly with the hotel and mention the DSNA in order to get the conference price. We cannot ensure this discounted price any later than the end of April—be advised that the Montreal Grand Prix will be going on that weekend, and accommodations in the city will be heavily reserved in advance, so you should make your housing arrangements as early as possible. The conference site is handicapped-accessible, but if you have any special needs, please let me know. And of course, you are welcome to extend your stay to enjoy the wonderful features of the city of Montreal at your leisure.

 The hotel is located right next to Parc Mont-Royal, in the section of the city known as the Plateau, conveniently close to both downtown and le Vieux Montréal (Old Montreal). You can check out the Biodome, the Botanical Gardens, the Museum of Fine Arts, and many other attractions in the area. If you like shopping for clothing, home decor, or books in French and English; listening to any kind of music; or eating in a fabulous array of restos—this is definitely the place!

As you will see from the draft program, the conference will include 43 outstanding papers, on a wide variety of lexicographical subjects, by members old and new from around the world.

At the conference site, an “author’s table” will be available—if you have your own books that you wish to sell at the conference, bring copies and help take turns staffing the “In Our Write” table. Please let me know in advance if you are planning to do this. We are arranging for publisher’s exhibits, including a special selection of books from The Word, Montreal’s premier academic second-hand book store. In addition, we have scheduled a special exhibit of works of lexicographical interest and a Thursday afternoon reception sponsored by the Rare Books Collection of the McLennan Library.

The banquet, on Saturday night, requires a specifically designated payment for a specially designed event! There will be lexicographical entertainment, door prizes, and rather decent food. In fact, we can promise that the coffee (a.m.) and tea (p.m.) breaks will be reflective of the great ethnically diverse cuisine of this city, and specially designed to promote networking.

Registration forms, travel information, and a link to the hotel website can all be found on this site. If you are flying to the conference and have not yet made airline reservations, please note that your destination airport is Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport, in Dorval, Quebec (YUL). Whether you are flying, driving, or taking the train, US citizens should remember that a valid passport, passport card, or Enhanced Driver’s License is now required for travel to and from Canada. For more information about this, visit the website of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative at www.getyouhome.gov/html/lang_eng/index.html. Please do not hesitate to write with questions, comments, or concerns, to Lise Winer, the conference organizer, at lise.winer@mcgill.ca or to Lisa Berglund, DSNA Executive Secretary, at dsnaadmin@gmail.com.

 Sincerely yours,

Lise Winer

DSNA 2011 Conference Payment Options

 

PayPal payments for DSNA 2011 in Montreal can be made by clicking below:

If you are paying by check or money order, please mail a hard copy of your registration form and payment to:  

Lisa Berglund, DSNA Executive Secretary

Buffalo State College

English Department, KH326

Buffalo, NY  14222

Fax: 716-878-5700
Email: dsnaadmin@gmail.com

 

Draft Program Schedule

The 2011 DSNA Biennial Meeting draft program schedule can be found here: Program Schedule (.pdf) or Program Schedule (.doc)

 --DRAFT PROGRAM SCHEDULE, v. 6--

Dictionary Society of North America XVIII Biennial Meeting

McGill University, 8‑11 June 2011

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8

12:00 – 6:00  Registration

3:00 Executive Board Meeting

Session 1:  French Dictionaries for Quebec and the Caribbean

6:00  Citizenship, nation, and language in Quebec – Robert O. Steele

6:30  Contributions à l’analyse lexicographique de la francophonie dans l’aire américano-caraïbe – Teodor-Florin Zanoaga

7:00 Opening Reception

 THURSDAY, JUNE 9

 Session 2:  Grammar in Dictionaries

8:00  A grammar-driven bilingual digital dictionary for Cayuga (Iroquoian) – Carrie Dyck & Ranjeet Kumar

8:30  English phrasal verbs in translation: A lexicographic and corpus study of equivalence – Magdalena Perdek

9:00  On the lexicography of contact languages: The special case of verb + particle constructions in Welsh – Kevin James Rottet

9:30  The inclusion and treatment of adverbs in British monolingual learners’ dictionaries with respect to dictionary users – Alenka Vrbinc

10:00 Pause

Session 3:  Using Dictionaries

10:30  That most ill-defined book: Problems with labeling the dictionary in educated writing – Ammon Shea

 11:00  Cantonese ESL learners’ use of a monolingual dictionary in determining meanings of familiar words used in unfamiliar contexts – Alice Chan

11:30  A search box is more than a thumb index: Closing the feedback loop in digital dictionaries – Orion Montoya

12:00  Laundry lists and family trees: Annotations in Early American dictionaries – Lisa Berglund

12:30 Lunch

1:30 General Business Meeting

Session 4:  Some Influential Lexicographers

2:00  The first English dictionary: Robert Cawdrey and the myth of creation – Christopher Devine

2:30  Elisha Coles in context – John Considine

3:00  Samuel Johnson’s lexicographical domesticity – Dale Katherine Ireland

3:30 The apprentice: The origins of Mitford Mathews’ lexicography – Michael Adams

5:00-7:00  Library Exhibit & Reception, Rare Books Collection, McGill University

FRIDAY, JUNE 10

Session 5:   Lexicography from Poland to Japan

8:00  The other lexicographical description of proper names: Dictionary of Proper Names, Metaphor, and Connotations  – Mariusz Rutkowski

8:30  ‘Academic hooliganism’ or ‘false gold’: The reception of Baudouin de Courtenay’s Russian dictionary – Donna M. T. Cr. Farina

9:00   Historical aspects of Uzbek lexicography: Bilingual dictionaries – Umida Khikmatillaeva

9:30   Learners’ Dictionaries: English and beyond – Ilan Kernerman

10:00 Pause

Session 6: Lexicography from Greece to India

10:30  Variation and bilingual correspondence in specialized knowledge resources: Water in modern Greek – Alejandro García Aragón

11:00  The Galanos Sanskrit-Greek lexicon: A nearly forgotten work – August A. Imholtz, Jr.

11:30  Modern English-Arabic lexicography: Issues and challenges – Radia Benzehra

12:00  Directionality in a pre-Mughal Indo-Persian vocabulary: The Qasidah dar Lughat-i Hindi – Walter N. Hakala

12:30 Lunch

Session 7:  OED and OUP

1:30  Harvesting Britain’s ancient treasure: Dialect lexicography and the Philological Society’s first plans for a national dictionary – Peter Gilliver

2:00 What does the new edition of OED tell us about Shakespeare’s word-coining? – Charlotte Brewer

2:30  Jane Austen and the OED – Rod McConchie

3:00  From Coptic to Syriac: The accidental emergence of a bilingual list – Elizabeth Knowles

3:30 Break

Session 8: Editorial Principles: Past, Present and Future  

4:00 Policies and choices in dictionary adaptation: How Noël Chomel’s Dictionarie œconomique (1718) and Pierre Joseph Macquer’s Dictionnaire de chymie (1766) were translated into English – Aline Francoeur & Jenna Thompson

4:30  Evolution of verb classifications in French dictionaries – Sophie Piron

5:00   Layout matters, Shigeru Yamada

SATURDAY, JUNE 11

Session 9:  The Learning Curve of Lexicography

8:00  Teaching lexicography: A retrospective on ten years of Lexicography 101 – Don R. McCreary

8:30  How things have changed! A personal reflection on thirty-odd years of making dictionaries – Victoria Neufeldt

9:00  State-of-the-art way of everyday lexicographer’s work, in the times when digital and mobile usage of the dictionary content is prevailing – Anna Rylova

9:30   Lexical component and electronic dictionaries – Vincenzo Lo Cascio

10:00 Pause

Session 10:  Dictionary Decisions in Canada and the Commonwealth

10:30  DCHP-2: Historical lexicography after the financial crisis – Stefan Dolliner, Laurel Brinton & Margery Fee

11:00  Aboriginal languages and dictionaries in Canada – Margery Fee & Patricia Shaw

11:30  Writing the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 1954-1982 – Jeff Webb

12:00  Principles and policies of inclusion and ownership in national dictionaries – Dianne Bardsley

12:30 Lunch

Session 11:  Neologisms and the Folk

1:30  Statistics for identifying novel word senses – Paul Cook

2:00  The new rap language: The emergence of the Hip-Hop lexis – Ben Zimmer

2:30  Dictionaries and authority in a widening wiki world: Lexicographic and sociological issues – Corinne Kirchner

3:00  Culturomics: Linguistic and Cultural Phenomena in English, 1800-2000 –Jean-Baptiste Michel & Erez Lieberman Aiden

4:00 Break

Session 12: Teachnical Vocabulary in Dictionaries

4:30  Comparative inclusion and treatment of scientific and technical vocabulary in OALD3, OALD4, and OALD8 – Marjeta Vrbinc

5:00  Language engineering and lexicography, 1870-1930: A case for telegraphic codes – John McVey

6:30   Banquet (President’s Address) 

Entering Canada

To enter (or leave) Canada from North America or Europe, a valid passport is the best identification.  Check to make sure that you do not need a visa from your passport country.  Lise Winer can provide official letters of invitation if needed.  Please contact Lise at lise.winer@mcgill.ca if you have any questions. 

Also, it is better to travel without a whole pile of handouts.  If you need handouts for DSNA 2011, please make them once you arrive or mail handouts to yourself care of the hotel, allowing sufficient time for delivery.

The following information has come from the ACLS discussion list and is worth noting for students who are attending DSNA 2011:

"We have been warned to fully expect that if foreign students leave the US to go to Canada, they are very likely to be refused entry to the US.  We’ve not faced this situation in the past, and this is our first meeting outside the US in a long time, but are advising foreign students that they should be aware of this risk. "

 We recommend that students call US Immigration before they leave the US to ensure they have the right information. Students should be careful to get the name of the person with whom they speak. For more information, please contact Lise Winer at lise.winer@mcgill.ca.

Getting to Montreal

Airline flights go into Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport (Montreal, YUL).  If you are alone and do not have much luggage, you can take a 747 bus (about $3) or the downtown hotel shuttle (about $8) downtown and then take a taxi from there to the New Residence Hotel, Park & Pines  (Parc et Pins). 

You can also take a taxi directly from the airport to the hotel, about $30 (taxis there are zoned).   There is a Bureau de Change at the airport, or money is easily changed at any bank.

If you are driving, parking rates are about $24/day next door to the hotel, but without multiple-entry privileges.

There is limited train service to Montreal, but there is a direct Amtrak route from New York City and points north.  From Buffalo, you can take the Amtrak train to Toronto, and the VIA Rail train to Montreal.  Central Station, at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, is right downtown and an easy taxi to the hotel.

RESERVE ROOMS NOW - Accommodation

Please reserve rooms now for the 2011 DSNA Biennial Meeting.  Be advised that the Montreal Grand Prix will be going on that weekend, and accommodations in the city will be heavily reserved in advance, so you should make your housing arrangements as early as possible.

Contact the hotel directly. Visit http://www.mcgill.ca/nrh/ for more information.  

Our guaranteed price for the conference is $99 + tax, = about $115/night (double or single). 

Previous Meetings of DSNA

The DSNA Biennial Meeting XVII was held 27 - 29 May 2009 at Indiana University.  A conference blog http://dsna-indiana2009.blogspot.com/ contains the meeting schedule and other information.

The DSNA Biennial Meeting XVI was held 13-16 June 2007 in conjuction with the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. A conference blog http://dsna-chicago.blogspot.com/ contains the meeting schedule and other information.

DSNA held its 15th Biennial Meeting in conjunction with Boston University 9-11 June 2005. Visit http://www.dictionarysociety.com/for a list of papers presented.

Registration Forms

DSNA 2011 Montreal Registration (.doc)

DSNA 2011 Montreal Registration (.pdf)