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HR-Lex

Digital corpus for a (multilingual) usage dictionary of Croatian.

In the field of teaching Croatian as a second and heritage language, there is no bilingual usage dictionary structured according to the CEFR that could serve as a macrostructure for language acquisition. Since most learners are of Hispanic origin and groups are linguistically and culturally heterogeneous, a multilingual lexicographic tool of the usage type is needed — an active dictionary with frequent and memorable structures.

HR-Lex

Methodology

  • Review of textbooks for teaching Croatian as a foreign language and multilingual glossaries.
  • Review of general and multilingual Croatian dictionaries, with attention to school dictionaries.
  • Analysis of the CEFR to determine parameters of lexical competence.
  • Building and lemmatising the dictionary corpus for the didactic dictionary.
  • Lexicographic treatment and microstructure design.
  • Drafting of dictionary examples following active-dictionary criteria and preparation for digitisation.

Objectives

  • Investigate and analyse manuals for teaching Croatian as a foreign language.
  • Analyse general and school dictionaries of Croatian.
  • Describe the differences between the standard language, dialects and colloquial register.
  • Build and lemmatise a digital dictionary corpus for multilingual dictionaries aimed at learning Croatian.