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    Ons bin zuunig: een typische karaktereigenschap van Zeeuwen?

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    The Dictionary of the Southern Dutch Dialects (DSDD) : designing a virtual research environment for digital lexicological research

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    The southern Dutch dialect area consists of four dialect groups: (1) the Flemish dialects, spoken in French Flanders (France), West and East Flanders (Belgium) and Zeeland Flanders (the Netherlands); (2) the Brabantic dialects, spoken in Antwerp and Flemish Brabant (Belgium) and Northern Brabant (the Netherlands); (3) the Limburgian dialects (spoken in the Limburg provinces of Belgium and the Netherlands); (4) the Zeeland dialects, spoken in Zeeland and Goeree-Overflakkee (the Netherlands). The vocabulary of the Flemish, Brabantic and Limburgian group is brought together in three comprehensive thematically arranged dictionaries in a joint international and inter-university effort. The dictionaries are based on their own dialect questionnaires, but the very big - and older - collection of Ludovic Grootaers, father of Willem Grootaers, is added. Thus, the results of the lexicographic efforts of the father of Willem Grootaers, are brought to light at last (after more than 50 years!). The dictionaries were set up in parallel in order to make possible the aggregation of the data, thus fulfilling the objectives of the founders of the projects (Toon Weijnen in Nijmegen, and Willem Pee in Gent). A project to this effect, the Dictionary of the Southern Dutch Dialects (DSDD) was launched in 2017. In our article, we will propose the plan for the aggregation and the state of affairs of the DSDD, the structure of the database and dwell on the different editorial problems that have to be solved. The different dictionaries / database were indeed composed over a very long period of time, at different places (Nijmegen, Leuven, Ghent) and by different editors, hence a great number of inconsistencies arose over time. In order to compose an aggregated DSDD-database, a number of standardization activities have to be carried out

    Krimpkloot en pienekeutel zijn gierigaards: hoe wij schelden in taal en dialect

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    The Database of the Southern Dutch Dialects: new opportunities for digital lexicological research

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    The Southern Dutch dialect area consists of four dialect groups; the Flemish, Brabantic, Limburgian and the Zeeland dialects, partly found in the Netherlands, in Belgium and in NordPas-de-Calais (France). Each of these dialects has been described in a separate dictionary. The Flemish, Brabantic and Limburgian dialect dictionaries are similarly constructed onomasiological dialect dictionaries, whereas the Zeeland dialect dictionary is semasiologically arranged. The Database of the Southern Dutch Dialects (DSDD) project, initiated by Ghent University and undertaken in close collaboration with the Dutch Language Institute, aimed to combine the onomasiological dictionaries into one platform accessible for both dialect researchers and a wider audience. Following the launch of the DSDD platform in 2020, dialect researchers can now make use of extensive search functionalities and geo-visualise their results on an interactive map. The DSDD enables searching for individual dialect words (e.g. puit 'frog'), for all dialect words from a certain municipality or region (e.g. all dialect words from the city of Antwerp) or for all dialect words belonging to a certain concept (e.g. 'frog') or theme (fauna). Filters are available to make the search query as accurate as possible. Based on the search results, interactive maps can be compiled, visualising the data in its geographical setting. The results can be clustered in various ways, using, for instance, frequency or etymologically related entries. The maps are flexible enabling the user, for example, to select the required level of detail to be visualised for the chosen region. A set of symbols and colours is available and can be arranged according to the user’s needs. The area map can be enlarged or reduced in size and printed or downloaded as a PDF file. In the future, the alphabetical dialect data from the Woordenboek der Zeeuwse Dialecten will be added to the platform. References Van Keymeulen, J., V. De Tier, R. Vandenberghe & S. Chambers (2019), The dictionary of the Southern Dutch Dialects (DSDD): designing a virtual research environment for digital lexicological research. in: Dialectologia. Special issue, 8 (2019), 93-115
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