Browsing Research Articles (African Languages) by Type "Article"

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  • African language dictionaries for children - a neglected genre 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2019)
    Children's dictionaries are instrumental in establishing a dictionary culture and are the gateway to sustained and informed dictionary use. It is therefore surprising that very little attention is paid to these dictionaries ...
  • Afrikataalleksikografie : gister, vandag en more 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Buro van die WAT, 2017)
    Hierdie artikel het ten doel om 'n perspektief te bied op Afrikataalleksikografie se reaksie op ontwikkelings in die internasionale leksikografiepraktyk met betrekking tot nuwe tendense en veranderinge wat hoofsaaklik deur ...
  • Beryl T. (Sue) Atkins lexicographer from A to Z 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2021)
    No abstract available.
  • Bilingual dictionary for a specific user group : supporting Setswana speakers in the production and reception of English 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Heid, Ulrich (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2011)
    The aim of this article is to discuss the design of a new English to Setswana dictionary for two narrowly defined target user groups of Setswana learners, i.e. Upper Primary (10 to 12 years old); and Junior Secondary (13 ...
  • Building a paralympic, frame-based dictionary - towards an inclusive design for Dicionário Paraolímpico (Unisinos/Brazil) 
    Chishman, Rove; Da Silva, Bruna; Nardes dos Santos, A; Vianna, A.L.; De Oliveira, S.; Martins, M.L.; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (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 ...
  • Classification of Setswana short stories 
    Mojalefa, M.J. (Mawatle Jeremiah), 1948-; Makgato, M.M.; Mojalefa, Jerry (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2007)
    The aim of this article is to reclassify Setswana short stories according to their treatment of female characters. Critics such as Ranamane have classified Setswana literary works according to year of publication, without ...
  • Collocations and grammatical patterns in a multilingual online term bank 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Buro van die WAT, 2015)
    This article considers the importance of including various types of collocations in a terminological database, with the aim of making this information available to the user via the user interface. We refer specifically to ...
  • A computational implementation of the Northern Sotho infinitive 
    Faab, Gertrud; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2011-10-21)
    The aim of this article is to describe the infinitive in Northern Sotho based on corpus data and the respective literature; so far, all share the same view: The infinitive is a noun (of class 15) and a verb at the same ...
  • Consumptive and non-consumptive uses of water beetles (Aquatic coleopterans) in sub-Saharan traditional rituals 
    Mnisi, Lucky Nhlanhla; Zondi, Nompumelelo B.; Pikirayi, Innocent (MDPI, 2023-09)
    The use of wild animals in customary rituals and as a sustenance resource is a longstanding tradition within sub-Saharan Africa. The emergence of commercial trade, has, however, created unattainable demands and has led ...
  • Corpus-based lexicography for lesser-resourced languages - maximizing the limited corpus 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2015)
    This article focuses on lesser-resourced languages for which only very limited corpora are available and how such relatively small and often unbalanced, raw corpora could be maximally utilized for lexicographic purposes ...
  • Corpus-driven Bantu lexicography Part 1 : Organic corpus building for Lusoga 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Nabirye, Minah (Buro van die WAT, 2018)
    This article is the first in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the building of a so-called 'organic corpus' from scratch, while the next two ...
  • Corpus-driven Bantu lexicography Part 2 : Lemmatisation and rulers for Lusoga 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Nabirye, Minah (Buro van die WAT, 2018)
    This article is the second in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicogra-phy, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the macrostructure and in particular on the building of a lemmatised frequency ...
  • Corpus-driven Bantu lexicography Part 3 : Mapping meaning onto use in Lusoga 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Nabirye, Minah (Buro van die WAT, 2018)
    This article is the third instalment in a trilogy of studies that deal with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography as applied to Lusoga. Having dealt with corpus-building in Part 1, and macro-structural aspects in Part 2, we now ...
  • A critical analysis of multilingual dictionaries 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2016)
    This article evaluates the lexicographic value of multilingual dictionaries. Dictionaries covering three or more languages spoken in South Africa are taken as a case in point. An attempt will be made to reflect on their ...
  • A critical evaluation of the paradigm approach in Sepedi lemmatisation - the Groot Noord-Sotho Woordeboek as a case in point 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2014)
    This article gives a critical evaluation of the paradigm approach of the Groot Noord-Sotho Woordeboek to the lemmatisation of verbs and nouns derived from verbs. The verb stem -roba 'break' with its complicated system of ...
  • A critical evaluation of three Sesotho dictionaries 
    Setaka, Mmasibidi; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (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 ...
  • Cultural adaptation and Northern Sotho translation of the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers 
    Vorster, Carlien; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Lekganyane, Matemane; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Van der Linde, Jeannie (AOSIS, 2022-01-13)
    BACKGROUND : In recent reviews of autism spectrum disorder screening tools, the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised with Follow-Up (M-CHAT-R/FTM) has been recommended for use in lower middle-income countries ...
  • Designing a noun guesser for part of speech tagging in Northern Sotho 
    Heid, Ulrich; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Faab, Gertrud; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2009)
    In this article, we describe an element of a suite of computational tools for assigning word-class tags (as a preparation for part of speech (POS) tagging) to word forms in unrestricted Northern Sotho texts. POS-tagging ...
  • Devices for information presentation in electronic dictionaries 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Heid, Ulrich; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Faab, Gertrud (Buro van die WAT/SU LIS, 2012)
    Electronic dictionaries should support dictionary users by giving them guidance in text production and text reception, alongside a user-definable offer of lexicographic data for cognitive purposes. In this article, we ...
  • The diachronic semantics of the dissociative past completive construction in the Kikongo language cluster (Bantu) 
    Dom, Sebastian; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen (De Gruyter, 2018)
    This article aims to give a semantic study of the reflexes of one specific tense/aspect form, namely the so-called *-a-B-a construction, in a cluster of about 40-odd Kikongo language varieties spoken in a wide area around ...