The MaLex Project
The MaLex project is a cooperation between the Centre for Language Studies (CLS) at the University of Malawi, Zomba, Malawi, and the Department of Language and Communication Studies (ISK) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. The project is financed by NUFU. Prof. Lars Hellan, NTNU, is the Norwegian coordinator and Prof. Pascal Kishindo, University of Malawi, is the coordinator in Malawi.
The "Lex" in MaLex stands for "lexicon", and lexica will be among the main results of the project. The homepage of the MaLex dictionaries
Another area of MaLex is typologically oriented in-depth annotation of representative texts of languages of Malawi, starting with Chichewa and Citumbuka. (The three focal languages of the project are Chichewa, Ciyawo and Citumbuka.) Within this overall goal, the annotation of technological terms used in the medical campaign against HIV and AIDS was given special importance in the text selection and annotation for Chichewa.
MaLex supports at present one PhD student from Malawi ( Jean Chavula), and has had visits at NTNU by two students from Malawi, one in the Spring semester 2008 (see Terminology development in Chichewa), and one in the Fall semester 2008 ( Jean Chavula).