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This wiki was created in March 2006 as a platform for larger projects of EuroLinguistiX (ELiX), coordinated by Joachim Grzega. Just like James Murray, who, as the responsible author and editor of the Oxford English Dictionary at the end of the 19th century, invited everybody to assist him in gathering data for his dictionary, we also invite everyone to make these Eurolinguistic projects here collaborative projects. Only with many people’s help Murray was able to compose the Oxford English Dictionary. And this was also the idea of ELiX Wiki.
In March and April 2011 the data of the ELiX Projects (EuroHiT, ECSTRA, EuroLex-Anglicisms and EuroLex-Gallicisms) were transferred to the Eurolinguistics unit in the English Wikiversity.
- EuroHiT (= European Historical Thesaurus): Here we want to find out how certain things are called in different periods of the European languages. We want to find out how and why expressions changed. We want to compare the various European languages with one another and see where there are similarities.
- ECSTRA (= European Communicative Strategies): Here we want to compare different communicative strategies in order to find out where different European nations are similar and where they differ; in a second step we also want to find out where Europe differs from other civilizations.
- EuroLex (= European Lexemes): Here we want to collect Europeanisms or European internationalisms, words that occur in the large majority of European languages and go back to French and English. Other source languages of Europeanisms are Latin, Arabic, Italian, and German, which may get highlighted in further projects.
