FLEx I
Juliet Morgan
FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) is a linguistic database for lexicographical and text data collection and analysis. It is designed to help linguists organize linguistic data, create dictionaries, analyze text materials, and study morphology.
The FLEx I workshop will introduce the software, beginning with the basics, and the class will create a FLEx database together. The FLEx I workshop particularly focuses on creating and editing the lexicon and interlinear texts. The class will learn how to create, open, and back up a project; create and edit lexical entries; create and edit text entries; add lexical entries from a text; print interlinearized texts; add audio files and images to lexical and text entries; and format the dictionary output.
Before the first class, workshop participants should download and install the latest stable release of FLEx (8.1.4 or later): http://fieldworks.sil.org/download/ No other software is needed for this class. Sample data sets and handouts with links to other useful software will be provided. Participants will leave the class with a basic understanding of the program, which I hope will encourage them to further explore the many possibilities of FLEx for language documentation, description, and revitalization work.
