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Lexicography
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During the last years the Ladin Cultural Institute "Micurà de Rü" realized two major lexicographic projects, a German - Ladin vocabulary with the variety of the Badia Valley and a German - Ladin vocabulary with the variety of the Gardena Valley. In this way a big gap which lasted over the last centuries could be filled and the requests made by the population could be met.
At the moment in the field of lexicography the Institute works on vocabularies for the Italian - Ladin (Ladin of the Badia and the Gardena Valley) version. The intention is to be able to publish the reference books within the next few years.
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Press conference on the 1st December 2000 in occasion of the presentation of the dictionary “German – Ladin (Badia Valley)”, which was elaborated by Giovanni Mischì together with his working team. |
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These projects came and come into being also thanks to the generous support of the Stiftung Südtiroler Sparkasse (a foundation).
Working with lexicography means ordering all existing Ladin words in an electronic data bank, in order to use them in a second moment for the publication of various bi- or monolingual dictionaries.
The personnel of the Institute deals during its translation activity steadily with word-coining.
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Presentation of the dictionary "German – Ladin (Gardena Valley)", which was elaborated by Marco Forni together with his working team. |
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In order to consider the varieties of all Ladin valleys in a better and more equal way than before the Project "VoLaNet" has been founded. It consists in a data bank which should coordinate the formation of neologisms (the coining of new words) between all Ladin varieties, what until now happened in an inadequate extent. In future the data bank "VoLaNet" will be accessible to everybody on the internet.
Moreover "VoLaNet" should work as a discussion forum for all persons who work with the Ladin language and as a place to take decisions about the best possible standardized application of the neologisms.
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The two dictionaries as printed version and on CD-ROM. |
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