New call is open: Apply for a #travelgrant for transnational access to ELEXIS Infrastructures!

ELEXIS is a European Infrastructure which aims to foster cooperation and knowledge exchange between different research communities in lexicography in order to bridge the gap between lesser-resourced languages and those with advanced e-lexicographic experience.

A key activity of the project is to provide transnational access to existing lexicographical milieus in Europe including the resources, tools and expertise of these groups.

The fourth call for visiting grants is now open! Application deadline is January 20th 2020. Further information and participating ELEXIS hosting institutions can be found here.

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Integration of lexicographic data: the diachronic plane – Dorota Mika

Dorota Mika is a passionate aspiring lexicographer, focusing on the etymology of the Polish language. She worked on a variety of lexicographic projects in the past including the electronic Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish.In order to generate a clear workflow on how to integrate and merge diachronic lexicographic data from electronic dictionaries, she applied to visit the Instituut voor the Nederlandse Taal to benefit from its long expertise.
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How is the corpus base influencing collocation sets in dictionaries?

Carolin Müller-Spitzer is an experienced linguist and lexicographer, working on the influence of the corpus base on collocation sets in dictionaries. She applied for an ELEXIS research grant to visit the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal in Leiden (the Netherlands) to conduct a contrastive German-Dutch study on the influence of the corpus base on collocation sets in dictionaries.
Ana Vujasić
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Adapting dictionary writing systems and other platforms to online dictionaries of idioms – Jelena Parizoska

Being an avid dictionary user herself, Jelena Parizoska wrote her PhD on the ‘variability of verbal idioms in English and Croatian within the cognitive linguistic framework.’ To learn how to incorporate certain features into the Online Dictionary of Croatian Idioms, she applied for a research grant to visit the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia.