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Project: Vocabulary of the southern Dutch dialects.

1997-01-01 – 2009-06-30

Abstract

The three dictionaries (the Dictionary of the Flemish Dialects (WVD), the Dictionary of the Brabantic Dialects (WBD) and the Dictionary of the Limburg Dialects (WLD) that together cover the whole area of the southern Dutch dialects, collect and publish the data systematically, rather than alphabetically. The data are collected orally or in writing by means of questionnaires filled out by hundreds of volunteers al over the area. With all data (the lexical and phonetic information gathered by the 3 editorial staffs themselves and the data taken from other sources published and unpublished ones, from 1880 onwards) an automated database is created and is made available in printed form and/or on diskette or CD-ROM. Every publication consists of a row of concepts related to a certain conceptual field.