Some con tras t ive prob lems may appear when two monolingual acceptions of two different languages are semantically slightly different. 1 adjective using or knowing only one language. These communities might define their in-group based on assimilation with the dominant language of the monolingual population, or divide communities by.

Such an acception can be accessed from one (or more) entries. Monolingual acceptions of a language L are acceptions that are connected to a word or an expression of L. These monolingual acceptions are combined with their linguistic information. Items of the monolingual dictionaries (monolingual acceptions) are generally accepted meanings of words or expressions, as we can find them in standard printed dictionaries. Some became 'subtractive bilinguals', moving from an ability to use two languages to monolingualism.This often becomes a source of regret, as people realise later in life that they have missed out on access to another language and culture that could connect them with wider family and their culture of origin. Interlingual Lexical Organisation for Multilingual Lexical Databases in NADIA The dictionaries A MLDB consists of two kinds of dictionaries: the monolingual dictionaries and the acception dictionary. Lets start by looking at the definition first: Monolingual: A person knowing only one language (40 of world population) Bilingual: A person using or able.

Definition monolingual