Titel: An Integrated e-Dictionary Application - The case of an Open Educational Trainer for Zulu
Personen:Faaß, Gertrud/Bosch, Sonja
Jahr: 2016
Typ: Aufsatz
Periodikum: International Journal of Lexicography
Seiten: 296-310
Band: 29
Heft: 3
Untersuchte Sprachen: Afrikanische Sprachen*African Languages - Bantusprachen*Bantu Languages - Englisch*English
Schlagwörter: Informationssystem*information system
Lernerlexikografie*learner's lexicography
Übersetzung*translation
Valenz im Wörterbuch*valency in dictionaries
zweisprachige bzw. mehrsprachige Lexikografie*bilingual/multilingual lexicography
Abstract: This article describes an English Zulu learners' dictionary that is part of a larger set of information tools, namely an online Zulu course, an e-dictionary of possessives (which was implemented earlier) accompanied by training software offering translation tasks on several levels, and an ontology of morphemic items categorizing and describing all parts of speech of Zulu. The underlying lexicographic database contains the usual type of lexicographic data, such as translation equivalents and their respective morphosyntactic data, but its entries have been extended with data related to the lessons of the online course in order to enable the learner to link both tools autonomously. The 'outer matter' is integrated into the website in the form of several texts on additional web pages (how-to-use, typical outputs, grammar tables, information on morphosyntactic rules, etc.). The dictionary comprises a modular system, where each module fulfils one of the necessary functions.