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Autor@s do deseño e estrutura do dicionario / Authors of the design and structure of the dictionary: María José Domínguez Vázquez (dir), Lola Mosquera Sánchez, Deborah Chidimma Nebechukwu, U-Tong Sih - EMLex

Mulleres na Lexicografía / Women in Lexicography

GAL O principal obxectivo deste dicionario é visibilizar e reivindicar a mulleres relevantes no eido da lexicografía. O traballo ofrece información sobre a súa vida, traxectoria profesional, así como a súa bagaxe social e cultural. Destaca especialmente a súa contribución á lexicografía nos seus respectivos contextos. Esta obra desenvólvese como proxecto didáctico de aprendizaxe colaborativa no...
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Williamson, Kay Ruth

Creado por Deborah o 16/01/2026 ás 15:13.

Nome / Name_eng

Kay (Ruth) Williamson

Foto / Photo_eng
Linguas de traballo / Work languages_eng

English, Igbo, Ịjọ (Benin-Congo language family)

Información biográfica / Biographical information_eng

1935 (United Kingdom) - 2005 (Brazil)

Traxectoria profesional / Career description_eng

Linguist, Lexicographer, Lecturer. She had her PhD in linguistics which focused on the Ịjọ language from Yale University. After getting her PhD, in 1963, she began working as a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. In 1972, she became a Professor. She went to the University of Port Harcourt in 1977 and continued her career in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages. In 1984 she was a visiting scholar at the University of Leiden. She was the Dean of Graduate school at the University of Port Harcourt from 1990 to 1991. She was also a visiting Professor to Wolfson college, Oxford in 1991. After her retirement, she was a contracted Professor to the Department of Linguistics and Communication Studies at the University of Port Harcourt (from 2000 to 2002). In 2002, she was appointed the UNESCO Professor of Cultural Heritage which she held until her death.

Publicacións relevantes e contexto sociocultural / Relevant publications and socio-cultural background_eng

She worked on the Nigerian languages and promoted the learning and teaching of minority languages. Some of her works include: Williamson, Kay. 1965 (2nd ed. 1969). A grammar of the Kolokuma dialect of Ịjọ. (West African Language Monographs, 2.) London: Cambridge University Press 2011. Williamson, Kay, and Kiyoshi Shimizu (edd.). 1968. Benue-Congo comparative wordlist: Volume I. Ibadan: West African Linguistic Society. Williamson, Kay (ed.) 1972. Igbo-English dictionary. Benin: Ethiope Publishing Corporation. Williamson, Kay (ed.). 1973. Benue-Congo comparative wordlist: Volume II. Ibadan: West African Linguistic Society. Williamson, Kay (ed.) 1983. Orthographies of Nigerian languages: Manual II. Lagos: National Language Centre, Federal Ministry of Education. Williamson, Kay, and A. O. Timitimi (edd.). 1983. Short Ịzọn-English dictionary. (Delta Series No. 3.) Port Harcourt: University of Port Harcourt Press.

Ligazóns / Links_eng

Igbo Dictionary: https://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/igbo/IGBO%20Dictionary.pdf

Extractos de obras / Excerpts from work(s)_eng
Datos de interese / Interesting facts_eng

UNESCO professor of cultural heritage, nature enthusiast.

Fontes / Sources_eng

Blench, R. (2005). Kay Williamson, 1935–2005 . Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 26(1), 79-80. https://doi.org/10.1515/jall.2005.26.1.79 Ndimele, O., & Horton, R. (2010). Kay Ruth M. Williamson (1935–2005). Africa, 80(1), 168-176.https://doi.org/10.3366/E000197200900134X Bamgbose, A. (2005). Kay Williamson, The Guardian,01/02/ 2005. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/01/guardianobituaries1 Photo: https://rogerblench.info/KWEF/KWBio/Kay%20Williamson%20life%20RMB_files/image048.jpg

Aut@r da entrada / Author of the entry_eng

Deborah Nebechukwu

Tradución da entrada / Translation of the entry_eng

María José Domínguez Vázquez

Autor@s do deseño e estrutura do dicionario / Authors of the design and structure of the dictionary: María José Domínguez Vázquez (dir), Lola Mosquera Sánchez, Deborah Chidimma Nebechukwu, U-Tong Sih - EMLex. 2000. Mulleres na Lexicografía / Women in Lexicography. En Fernández Rei, Elisa & Álvarez de la Granja, María (coords.), Lingua viva. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega. ilg.usc.gal/linguaviva [Consultado o 17/01/2026 ás 14:25].

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