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The MaLex project is a cooperation between the [[Centre for Language Studies (CLS)]] at the University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi, and the Department of Language and Communication Studies (ISK) at the [http://www.ntnu.no Norwegian University of Science and Technology], Trondheim, Norway. The project is financed by [http://www.uib.no/fa/intkont/nufu/nufu.htm NUFU]. Prof. Lars Hellan, NTNU, is the Norwegian coordinator and Prof. Pascal Kishindo, University of Malawi, is the coordinator in Malawi.
 
The MaLex project is a cooperation between the [[Centre for Language Studies (CLS)]] at the University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi, and the Department of Language and Communication Studies (ISK) at the [http://www.ntnu.no Norwegian University of Science and Technology], Trondheim, Norway. The project is financed by [http://www.uib.no/fa/intkont/nufu/nufu.htm NUFU]. Prof. Lars Hellan, NTNU, is the Norwegian coordinator and Prof. Pascal Kishindo, University of Malawi, is the coordinator in Malawi.
  
The "Lex" in MaLex stands for "lexicon", and lexica will be among the results of the project. A second focal area of MaLex is an in-depth annotation of representative corpora of the languages of Malawi, starting with [[Chichewa]].
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The "Lex" in MaLex stands for "lexicon", and lexica will be among the main results of the project. For reporting on this, see [http://unima-cls.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Malex].
  
The goals of TypeCraft within the MaLex project are:
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Another area of MaLex is typologically oriented in-depth annotation of representative texts of languages of Malawi, starting with [[Chichewa]] and Citumbuka.
  
* an in-depth linguistic annotation of representative text fragments from [http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_iso639.asp?code=nya Chichewa], Ciyawo and [http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=TUW Citumbuka].
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See annotation of representative text fragments from [http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_iso639.asp?code=nya Chichewa], Ciyawo and [http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=TUW Citumbuka].
* within this overall goal, the annotation of technological terms used in the medical campaign against HIV and AIDS is of special importance.
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* within this overall goal, the annotation of technological terms used in the medical campaign against HIV and AIDS was given special importance in the text selection and annotation for Chichewa..
  
MaLex supports at present two graduate students from Malawi. For more information [[Terminology development in Chichewa| follow this link.]]
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MaLex supports at present one graduate student from Malawi. For more information [[Terminology development in Chichewa| follow this link.]]
  
  

Revision as of 16:20, 22 February 2010

University of Malawi
NTNU-Dragvoll, Trondheim Norway

The MaLex project is a cooperation between the Centre for Language Studies (CLS) at the University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi, and the Department of Language and Communication Studies (ISK) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. The project is financed by NUFU. Prof. Lars Hellan, NTNU, is the Norwegian coordinator and Prof. Pascal Kishindo, University of Malawi, is the coordinator in Malawi.

The "Lex" in MaLex stands for "lexicon", and lexica will be among the main results of the project. For reporting on this, see [1].

Another area of MaLex is typologically oriented in-depth annotation of representative texts of languages of Malawi, starting with Chichewa and Citumbuka.

See annotation of representative text fragments from Chichewa, Ciyawo and Citumbuka.

  • within this overall goal, the annotation of technological terms used in the medical campaign against HIV and AIDS was given special importance in the text selection and annotation for Chichewa..

MaLex supports at present one graduate student from Malawi. For more information follow this link.