Digitizing the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary: Challenges and Prospects

This article recounts the genesis, growth and turbulent events that accompanied the compilation of the Eiwanika ly'Olusoga, that is, the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary. Contrasting academia with the trade, legacy with state-of the-art dictionary compilation software, high praise and visibility w...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Minah Nabirye, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	AF DE EN FR NL
Publicado:	Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT 2013
Materias:	monolingual lexicography dictionary compilation software funding academia trade digitization lusoga uganda Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages PD1-7159
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/b8c4c73758f847cd9d8fa4cb1fb23372
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:b8c4c73758f847cd9d8fa4cb1fb23372
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b8c4c73758f847cd9d8fa4cb1fb233722021-12-03T09:22:56ZDigitizing the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary: Challenges and Prospects10.5788/23-1-12171684-49042224-0039https://doaj.org/article/b8c4c73758f847cd9d8fa4cb1fb233722013-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/1217https://doaj.org/toc/1684-4904https://doaj.org/toc/2224-0039This article recounts the genesis, growth and turbulent events that accompanied the compilation of the Eiwanika ly'Olusoga, that is, the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary. Contrasting academia with the trade, legacy with state-of the-art dictionary compilation software, high praise and visibility with daily and down-to-earth drudgery, it recounts the events chronologically, from humble to grand, from paper to digital, from success to insignificance, and leads to a set of highly realistic proposals to be considered by all those involved in the compilation of explanatory dictionaries for the African languages.Minah NabiryeGilles-Maurice de SchryverWoordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WATarticlemonolingual lexicographydictionary compilation softwarefundingacademiatradedigitizationlusogaugandaPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844Germanic languages. Scandinavian languagesPD1-7159AFDEENFRNLLexikos, Vol 23, Pp 297-322 (2013)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	AF DE EN FR NL
topic	monolingual lexicography dictionary compilation software funding academia trade digitization lusoga uganda Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages PD1-7159
spellingShingle	monolingual lexicography dictionary compilation software funding academia trade digitization lusoga uganda Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844 Germanic languages. Scandinavian languages PD1-7159 Minah Nabirye Gilles-Maurice de Schryver Digitizing the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary: Challenges and Prospects
description	This article recounts the genesis, growth and turbulent events that accompanied the compilation of the Eiwanika ly'Olusoga, that is, the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary. Contrasting academia with the trade, legacy with state-of the-art dictionary compilation software, high praise and visibility with daily and down-to-earth drudgery, it recounts the events chronologically, from humble to grand, from paper to digital, from success to insignificance, and leads to a set of highly realistic proposals to be considered by all those involved in the compilation of explanatory dictionaries for the African languages.
format	article
author	Minah Nabirye Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
author_facet	Minah Nabirye Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
author_sort	Minah Nabirye
title	Digitizing the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary: Challenges and Prospects
title_short	Digitizing the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary: Challenges and Prospects
title_full	Digitizing the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary: Challenges and Prospects
title_fullStr	Digitizing the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary: Challenges and Prospects
title_full_unstemmed	Digitizing the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary: Challenges and Prospects
title_sort	digitizing the monolingual lusoga dictionary: challenges and prospects
publisher	Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal-WAT
publishDate	2013
url	https://doaj.org/article/b8c4c73758f847cd9d8fa4cb1fb23372
work_keys_str_mv	AT minahnabirye digitizingthemonolinguallusogadictionarychallengesandprospects AT gillesmauricedeschryver digitizingthemonolinguallusogadictionarychallengesandprospects
_version_	1718373352746254336

Digitizing the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary: Challenges and Prospects

Ejemplares similares