African Association for Lexicography

Last update:
8 June 2009

AFRILEX
African Association for Lexicography

Department of African Languages, University of Pretoria
Pretoria 0002, South Africa
Tel.: +27 (0)12 420 2494, Fax: +27 (0)12 420 3163
E-mail: E. Taljard

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AFRILEX-ALASA 2009
Xhosa Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa, 6-10 July 2009

Join us for a week of stellar lexicography and linguistics in July 2009: AFRILEX will run from Monday 6 to Tuesday 7, parallel workshops will be held on Wednesday 8, and on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 ALASA will be in proceedings. The weekends on either side are reserved for excursions.

AFRILEX 2009 – 14th Annual International Conference of the African Association for Lexicography (6-8 July 2009)
Call for Papers (9 December 2008)
    First Circular (24 January 2009, PDF 203KB)
    Second Circular (3 June 2009, PDF 205KB)
    Preliminary Programme (Last update: 5 June 2009, PDF 200KB)

ALASA 2009 – 15th Biennial International Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (8-10 July 2009)
Call for Papers (9 December 2008, PDF 90KB)
    Conference Information (8 June 2009, PDF 85KB)
    Preliminary Programme (Last update: 5 June 2009, PDF 136KB)

NB! The latest contact details for all accommodation, transport and excursion options during both AFRILEX and ALASA are as follows:

KURT (Director: African Routes)
Cell: +27 (0)78 008 6172
E-mail: africanroutes@uwc.ac.za

JUAN (African Routes - Sports Café)
Cell: +27 (0)72 695 5602
Landline 1: +27 (0)21 959 2016
Landline 2: +27 (0)21 959 9330

 

 

All you need to know about Afrilex

 

Honorary Member: PROF. A.C. NKABINDE

AFRILEX IN A NUTSHELL

THE STORY OF AFRILEX

HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER

CONSTITUTION

LEXIKOS (THE ANNUAL JOURNAL)

BOARD MEMBERS

 

 

Online Dictionaries by National Lexicography Units


Elektroniese WAT
[Electronic version of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal]
  Na tuisblad eWAT

Pukuntšutlhaloši ya Sesotho sa Leboa ka Inthanete
[Online Explanatory Northern Sotho Dictionary]
  Tšwela pele

 

 

Recent Dictionaries by Afrilex Members


Oxford Afrikaans-Engels English-Afrikaans Skoolwoordeboek School Dictionary
  Louw, P. et al. 2007

Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary: Northern Sotho and English / Pukuntšu ya Polelopedi ya Sekolo: Sesotho sa Leboa le Seisimane. E gatišitšwe ke Oxford
  De Schryver, G-M et al. 2007

 

 

Previous Afrilex Circulars & Activities

 

International Conferences

Seminars, Tutorials, etc.

Newsletters

Annual Reports

1st (1996): Johannesburg

2nd (1997): Durban

3rd (1998): Potchefstroom

4th (1999): Pretoria

5th (2000): Stellenbosch

6th (2001): Pietersburg

7th (2002): Grahamstown

TAMA (2003): Gauteng

8th (2003): Windhoek

9th (2004): Libreville

10th (2005): Bloemfontein

11th (2006): Thohoyandou

12th (2007): Soshanguve

13th (2008): Stellenbosch

1: isiNdebele Dictionary Needs

2: Basics of Lexicography

3: African-Language Lexicography

4: Summary of Salex '97

5: Afrilex-Salex'98

6: Alberts on Terminology

7: Tarp & Gouws on Terminology

8: Learners’ Dictionaries

9: Online Dictionary Launch

10: Gouws & Prinsloo on South African Lexicography

11: Hanks on Practical Lexical Analysis using Corpus Tools

0: December 1995

1: August 1996

2: December 1996

3: October 1998

4: August 1999

5: December 2000

6: January 2002

7: February 2004

8: ? 2005 (being recovered)

9: January 2009

1995-1996: R.H. Gouws

1996-1997: R.H. Gouws

1997-1998: R.H. Gouws

1998-1999: R.H. Gouws

1999-2000: D.J. Prinsloo

2000-2001: D.J. Prinsloo

2001-2002: D.J. Prinsloo

2002-2003: D.J. Prinsloo

2003-2004: M. Alberts

2004-2005: M. Alberts

2005-2006: M. Alberts

2006-2007: M. Alberts

2007-2008: R.H. Gouws

2008-2009: R.H. Gouws

 

AFRILEX NEWSLETTER 9
(January 2009 PDF 408KB)

13TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Stellenbosch, 1-3 July 2008)
Call for Papers    First Circular (27 November 2007, PDF 172KB)
    Second Circular (21 April 2008, PDF 175KB)     Programme (7 June 2008, PDF 199KB)     Third Circular (10 June 2008, PDF 198KB)    Programme & Abstracts Booklet (PDF 798KB)

 PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP (Stellenbosch, 30 June 2008)
Practical Lexical Analysis using Corpus Tools (Presenter: P. Hanks)
  Programme

12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Soshanguve, 27-29 June 2007)
First Circular (9 February 2007, PDF 37KB)    Programme (PDF 36KB)

11TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Thohoyandou, 5-7 July 2006)
Call for Papers    First Circular (6 March 2006)     Second Circular (5 May 2006)     Accommodation (Last update: 6 May 2006)     Programme & Abstracts Booklet (PDF 1,022KB)

PANEL DISCUSSIONS (Thohoyandou, 4 July 2006)
Electronic Dictionaries for African Languages (Convenor: S.E. Bosch)
Publishers and Lexicographers (Convenor: R.H. Gouws) 
  Detailed Information (Last update: 14 June 2006)

 PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP (Thohoyandou, 3-4 July 2006)
Principles and Practice of South African Lexicography (Presenters: R.H. Gouws & D.J. Prinsloo)
  Detailed Information (Last update: 6 May 2006)

10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Bloemfontein, 13-15 July 2005)
Call for Papers     First Circular (11 February 2005)
Second Circular (17 May 2005)    Third Circular (17 June 2005)

9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP ON THE DICTIONARY AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (Libreville, Gabon, 18-23 July 2004)
Call for Papers    First Circular (6 December 2003)   

9ÈME CONFÉRENCE INTERNATIONALE & ATELIER INTERNATIONAL SUR LE THÈME LE DICTIONNAIRE ET LE DÉVELOPPEMENT DES LANGUES (Libreville, Gabon, 18-23 juillet 2004)
Appel à contribution    Première circulaire (6 décembre 2003)   

AFRILEX NEWSLETTER 7 
(February 2004  Online  PDF (305 KB))

8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Windhoek, Namibia, 7-9 July 2003)
Call for Papers    First Circular (10 December 2002)    Second Circular (22 April 2003)    Third Circular (25 May 2003)    Programme     Conference Abstracts    Conference Snapshots

D.J. Prinsloo, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, David Joffe & Salmina Nong’s 
MINI-SEMINAR and DICTIONARY LAUNCH (Pretoria, 20 June 2003)
The First South African Online Dictionary Interface

6TH INTERNATIONAL TAMA CONFERENCE (Gauteng, 17-21 Feb. 2003) 
Home Page (Co-organised by AFRILEX)

SEMINAR ON LEARNERS’ DICTIONARIES (Pretoria, 11-12 Nov. 2002) 
Circular (29 September 2002)    Programme

7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Grahamstown, 8-10 July 2002)
Call for Papers    First Circular (10 August 2001)    Second Circular (24 January 2002)    Festival Accommodation (4 March 2002)    Third Circular (14 May 2002)    Programme    Conference Abstracts    Conference Snapshots

AFRILEX NEWSLETTER 6 
(January 2002)

6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Pietersburg, 2-4 July 2001)
Call for Papers    Second Circular (28 February 2001)    Minutes 6th AGM (3 July 2001)    Programme

Sven Tarp and Rufus Gouws’ 
TWO-DAY SEMINAR ON TERMINOLOGY (Pretoria, 28-29 May 2001)
Circular (28 February 2001)

AFRILEX NEWSLETTER 5 
(December 2000, aka Vol. 5, No. 1)

5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Stellenbosch, 3-5 July 2000)
Call for Papers    First Circular (8 February 2000)    Second Circular (18 May 2000)    Programme

Mariëtta Alberts’ 
TWO-DAY TUTORIAL ON PRINCIPLES, PROCEDURES AND PRACTICE OF TERMINOLOGY & TERMINOGRAPHY (Pretoria, 29-30 November 1999)
Circular (6 November 1999)    Programme

AFRILEX NEWSLETTER 4 
(August 1999, aka Vol. 4, No. 1)

4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Pretoria, 5-6 July 1999)
Call for Papers    First Circular (10 April 1999)    Second Circular (22 June 1999)    Programme

CHAIRPERSON’S ANNUAL REPORT: 1998-1999 
by Rufus Gouws (4 July 1999)

AFRILEX NEWSLETTER 3 
(October 1998)

AFRILEX-SALEX'98 (Pretoria, 7-18 September 1998) 
Information (22 April 1998)    Circular (10 July 1998)    Registration    Report

A SUMMARY OF SALEX '97 (Potchefstroom, 1 July 1998) 
Circular (22 April 1998)    Programme

3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Potchefstroom, 29-30 June 1998)
Call for Papers    First Circular (28 January 1998)    Second Circular (22 April 1998)    Third Circular (27 May 1998)    Programme

CHAIRPERSON’S ANNUAL REPORT: 1997-1998 
by Rufus Gouws (29 June 1998)

 TUTORIAL: COMPILATION OF DICTIONARIES FOR AFRICAN LANGUAGES (Durban, 17 July 1997)
Programme

 TUTORIAL: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF LEXICOGRAPHY (Durban, 16 July 1997)
Programme

2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Durban, 14-15 July 1997)
Programme

CHAIRPERSON’S ANNUAL REPORT: 1996-1997 
by Rufus Gouws (14 July 1997)

 CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE ON THE DICTIONARY NEEDS OF ISINDEBELE (KwaNdebele, 14 March 1997)
Report

AFRILEX NEWSLETTER 2 
(December 1996)

AFRILEX NEWSLETTER 1 
(August 1996)

1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (Johannesburg, 1-2 July 1996)
Programme

AFRILEX NEWSLETTER 0 
(December 1995)

 

 

Useful links to related Websites & Information

 

OTHER -LEX FAMILY MEMBERS

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OTHER LEXICOGRAPHY INITIATIVES

S. Atkins, M. Rundell & A. Kilgarriff (LEXICOM)
The Lexicography MasterClass

TshwaneLex
Dictionary compilation and terminology management software

P. Hanks
= Johnson's "twenty-first-century counterpart" (Atkins & Rundell 2008)

PWH

Lexicography List
(E-mail/Internet discussion)

LexList

CBOLD
Comparative Bantu OnLine Dictionary

Lee
Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists

LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS INTERESTED IN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE

ALASA - African Language Association of Southern Africa
ALASA SIG - ALASA Special Interest Group: Language and Speech Technology Development
LSSA - Linguistic Society of Southern Africa
SAALA - Southern African Applied Linguistics Association
SAALT - South African Association for Language Teaching
SATI - South African Translators' Institute
StanSA TC 37 - Mirror committee of ISO/TC 37 (Terminology and other Language and Content Resources) in South Africa

 

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