Czech Sign Language Dictionary and Thesaurus

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Dictio is an online monolingual dictionary, which has been developed to provide support to university students communicating in sign language, sign language interpreters and translators, and sign language linguists. It is gradually growing to become a helpful tool for wide public use, as it enables to present standard as well as specialized lexis of both sign (visual-motoric) and spoken (audio-oral) languages in one and the same interface. At present Dictio provides information on the lexis of Czech Sign Language (CZSL) and the Czech language.

Structure of the dictionary entries

Information on Czech Sign Language

  • Headword (lemma) in CZSL as a video from two different perspectives (front and side view)
  • Grammar information (word class characteristics, morphological irregularities)
  • Etymology of the sign
  • Stylistics information (regional or other restrictions in usage, for specialized terms or other neologisms also the author of the proposal)
  • Transcription into SignWriting or HamNoSys (enables search)
  • Semantic field
  • Description of meaning of the CZSL expression, in CZSL
  • Example of use in an authentic CZSL utterance
  • Semantically superordinate and subordinate, synonymic and antonymic expressions in CZSL
  • Phraseological units with the given CZSL expression, with examples of use in an authentic CZSL utterance
  • Translations into Czech

Information on the Czech language

  • Headword in Czech in the basic dictionary form (lemma)
  • Origin of the word
  • Czech grammar information (word class characteristics, morphological paradigm, verb valency, prepositional phrases)
  • Czech stylistics information (distributoin area, expressive function, etc.)
  • Semantic field
  • Description of meaning of the Czech expression, in Czech
  • Syntactical relations and phraseological units, with examples of use in an authentic Czech utterance
  • Semantically superordinate and subordinate, synonymic and antonymic expressions
  • Translation into Czech Sign Language

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