Lexicography Tasks overview

The topics listed in this Help book are intended to help you rapidly develop a dictionary using the Collect Words tool and various Bulk Edit features. The topics are listed in the order you will typically do them in this context. The intent of each of these topics is discussed in the document entitled Introduction to Lexicography, which is available on the Help menu.

There are other Bulk Edit topics in the Bulk Edit Entries (Lexicon) Help book, but usually without a specific context specified for them. Bulk Edit overview describes behaviors of the tool.

User Helps topic

Section with related discussion in

Introduction to Lexicography

Collect Words overview

4.1.1 Collecting Words Using Semantic Domains

Collect Words - initial definition considerations

4.2.1 Giving a Short Definition

Bulk change the morph type

4.2.2 Specifying the Morph (Morpheme) Type

Specify grammatical info

4.2.4 Specifying the Grammatical Category (Part of Speech)

Add paradigm forms

4.2.5 Adding Paradigm (Inflected) Forms

Bulk change the inflection class

4.2.6 Specifying the Inflection Class

Bulk change the inflection features

4.2.7 Specifying Inflection Features

Generate lexeme forms or

Fill in the Citation Form field

4.2.8 Generating the Lexeme Form from the Citation Form

Fill in the Pronunciation field

4.2.9 Filling in the Pronunciation Field

Fill in the CV Pattern field:

4.2.10 Filling in the CV Pattern Field

Fill in the Tone field

4.2.11 Filling in the Tone Pattern Field

Fill in the Gloss field

4.2.12 Filling in the Gloss Field

Fill in the Reversals field

4.2.13 Adding a Reversal Index Entry

Add a custom field

4.2.14 Adding a Custom (User-defined) Field

Here are two other topics you might need:

Related Topics

Morphology and Parsing Tasks overview

Lexicon overview

Grammar overview

Texts & Words overview

Using regular expressions assistance