Doing lexicography

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Prepare to do lexicography
Learn about dictionaries
Learn about lexical databases
Learn about lexical semantics
Build a lexical database
Discover new lexical items
Analyze a text corpus
Explore lexical relations
Elicit from a list of standard vocabulary
Elicit from a list of reconstructed proto forms
Elicit from a list of possible phonological forms
Decide how a new item should be added
Distinguish between different entries and different senses
Distinguish between a major entry and a minor entry
Distinguish between a major entry and a subentry
Add a lexical item to the database
Describe the form of a lexical item
Determine the spelling of the headword
Give the pronunciation
List variant forms
Describe the historical source of the form
Describe the morphosyntax of a lexical item
Determine the part of speech
Identify other morphosyntactic features
Give paradigm information
Describe the senses of meaning of a lexical item
Discover the senses of a lexical item
Write a definition for a sense
Describe usage constraints for the sense
Assign the sense to a thesaurus category
List semantically related items by lexical relation
Produce a dictionary
Identify the scope of the publication
Identify the primary audience
Formulate the purpose
Identify constraints on size or cost
Design the dictionary
Determine the content and format for the headword and related information
Determine the content and format for sense information
Determine the placement of subentries and minor entries
Determine criteria for suppressing entries that are out of scope
Determine the collating sequence
Output the lexical database as a document with the chosen design
Write the introductory material
Explain how the dictionary came to be
Describe the audience and purpose
Describe how the information was collected and verified
Make acknowledgement of your debt to others
Explain how to use the dictionary
Describe the structure of a dictionary entry
Describe the orthography and how to pronounce words
Explain how to determine the citation form for a word
Explain how to use the cross-references
List all the abbreviations
Explain the essentials of the grammar (optional)
Describe the basic parts of speech
Describe the basic syntactic patterns
Describe the basic word inflections
Describe productive derivations
Describe common morphophonemic processes
Publish the dictionary