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Lexin dictionaries

SND-ID: EXT 0286

Overview
Data and documentation

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Laila Höglund

Institute for Language and Folklore, Language Council of Sweden

Description

Lexin are multilingual dictionaries developed for immigrants who want to learn Swedish, and also suitable for multilingual teaching. The dictionaries consist of between 5,000 and 22,000 entries, including commonly used words and phrases as well as words from Swedish society. Each entry is provided with language examples, sentence construction, stylistic and grammatical comments as well as explanations.

Language

Amharic

Arabic

Azerbaijani

Modern Greek (1453-)

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Institute for Language and Folklore

Responsible department/unit

Language Council of Sweden

Contributor(s)

Institute for Language and Folklore, Language Council of Sweden

Protection and ethical review

Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

1995 – ongoing

Language resources

Resource type

Lexical conceptual resource

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Sweden

Topic and keywords

Research area

Language and linguistics (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Languages and Literature (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)

Keywords

everyday life, dictionary, polyglot, lexicon, society, lexin

Publications

Access to data via

Homepage

http://liljeholmen.sprakochfolkminnen.se/sprakresurser/lexin/

Contact

Språkrådet

sprakteknologi@sprakochfolkminnen.se

Dataset

Lexin dictionaries

Description

text/xml

Data format / data structure

Text

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Laila Höglund

Institute for Language and Folklore, Language Council of Sweden

Time period(s) investigated

1995 – ongoing

License

Published: 2020-03-09

Last updated: 2020-05-13

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