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(European Association for Lexicography, 2021)This paper focuses on the need for lexicographers to study and to treat the salient features of languages satisfactorily and the challenges faced by lexicographers. The focus is on the challenges facing compilers of African ...
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(Routledge, 2021)Although a considerable body of corpus-based metaphor research—with Conceptual Metaphor Theory as theoretical framework and heuristic tool—has been published internationally, South African studies in this field are lagging ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2021)This article, the second in a series of three on lexicographic data boxes, focuses pri-marily on the types and contents of data boxes with particular reference to dictionaries for English and African languages. It will be ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2021)This article, the first in a series of three on lexicographic data boxes, focuses primarily on the occurrence of lexicographic data boxes as text constituents in dictionaries. Following a brief look at what data boxes are, ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2021)This article, the third in a series of three on lexicographic data boxes, firstly focuses ona number of aspects of data boxes in bilingual dictionaries with the emphasis on different approaches in bilingual dictionaries ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2021)Some Sepedi authors perceive women as having to be confined to the home to only perform maternal duties, and women are ridiculed for not being able to fulfill the responsibilities of womanhood. This perception extends to ...
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(European Association for Lexicography, 2021)This paper presents some theoretical and methodological issues emanating from the building of Dicionário Paraolímpico (Paralympic Dictionary), an online lexicographical resource that will describe the lexicon of Paralympic ...
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(John Benjamins Publishing, 2021-08)This article employs a 4-million-word diachronic corpus to examine how the expression of possibility has evolved in Luganda since the 1890s to the present, by focusing on the language’s three main potential markers -yînz-, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1994)Please read abstract in the document
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(University of Florida Press, 2020-09)In the Bantu language Kirundi (JD62), the verbal prefix oo- has traditionally been described as either conditional or potential. In this article, we show by means of a corpus-based analysis of its uses that it is first and ...
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(Routledge, 2020)This article provides a brief review and mapping of the critical field of inequality studies in both general and gender-feminist-specific terms. The article approaches the topic by interrogating the meanings associated ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1995)The main aim of this investigation is to give a detailed description of the morphology, the syntax and finally the semantic function of the different pronouns found in siSwati. Before this is done (in Chapters 2 - 4) ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2020)This article gives a perspective on Sesotho lexicography and a critical analysis of themacrostructures and microstructures of three selected Sesotho dictionaries. The monolingual paper dictionary Sethantšo sa Sesotho, the ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2020)One of the main tasks of compilers of bilingual dictionaries is to find suitable transla-tion equivalents for source language lemmas in the target language. It could be expected that to a large degree one should find full ...
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(Buro van die WAT, 2020)Negation in Sepedi is a complex matter — a variety of negative morphemes are usedacross complicated verbal and copulative structures and these morphemes are not interchangeable. Dictionary users in a text production situation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Alan Paton’s world famous debut novel, Cry, the beloved country (1948), is seen as one of the most important literary texts in the polysystem of South Africa’s literature of the twentieth century. With more than 15 million ...
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(John Benjamins Publishing, 2020)The North-Angolan Bantu language Kisikongo has a present tense (O-Rang- a; R=root) that is morphologically more marked than the future tense (O-R-a). We reconstruct how this typologically uncommon tense-marking feature ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This study investigates how and to what effect metaphors and similes from Tayeb Salih‘s novel Mawsim al-Hiǧra ilā ash-Shamāl (1966) were translated into English – a worthy topic, given the many linguistic and cultural ...
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(Routledge, 2019)BACKGROUND : Bilingual aphasia forms a significant part of speech-language pathologists’ (SLP) caseload, globally, and specifically in South Africa. Few tools supporting clinical decision-making are available due to limited ...
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