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  • Geskiedenis van die Sepediskryfwyse 
    Esterhuyse, C.J.; Groenewald, P.S. (Pieter Schalk) (South African Association for Language Teaching, 1999-12)
    The development of Sepedi as a written language extends over a period of 100 years, from 1870 to 1967 when the current orthography was finalised. The missionaries, who were to put Sepedi to writing, were members of the ...
  • Gender stereotyping in Indlela yababi and Kuxolelwa abanjani? : a corpus linguistics approach 
    Mncwango, Lungile; Van Niekerk, Jacomien (Jacomina); Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2023)
    In this article, we use corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to examine gender stereotyping in three isiZulu novels, namely Indlela yababi (‘The path of the wicked’) by RRR Dhlomo, Inkinsela yaseMgungundlovu ...
  • 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 ...
  • Subtitling, semiotics and spirited away 
    Sanders, Lisa (European Association for Studies in Screen Translation, 2022-03)
    When translating a film according to typical subtitling models, the focus is usually solely on the dialogue of the film. Furthermore, the resulting translations are often impoverished to a large extent due to the constraints ...
  • The future of metalexicography : reaching for the mesosphere 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Bureau of the WAT, 2023-06)
    In this research article, a quantified look is taken at the metalexicographic endeavours of the past half century, starting in 1971. It is argued that the year 2021 represents a tipping point, and for that reason, when ...
  • Generative AI and lexicography : the current state of the art using ChatGPT 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Oxford University Press, 2023-12)
    In this article, all ten papers and talks that have been devoted to the use of ChatGPT in lexicography so far are critically analysed, their results tabulated and cross-compared, from which the leading trends are determined. ...
  • Optical character recognition and text cleaning in the indigenous South African languages 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Goosen, Michelle (Stellenbosch University, Library and Information Service, 2022)
    This article represents follow-up work on unpublished presentations by the authors of text and corpus cleaning strategies for the African languages. In this article we provide a comparative description of cleaning of ...
  • Male perpetrators of violence against women in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon 
    Haskins, Susan L. (Classical Association of South Africa, 2022)
    No study of violence against women in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon has yet focussed on the male perpetrators of that violence. I contend that the novel depicts male perpetrators as failing to live up to the ...
  • Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language : a case study of neology detection in Lusoga 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Nabirye, Minah (European Association for Lexicography, 2022)
    This paper looks at whether, after two decades of corpus building for the Bantu languages, the time is ripe to begin using monitor corpora. As a proof­-of-­concept, the usefulness of a Lusoga monitor corpus for lexicographic ...
  • Metalexicography : an existential crisis 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (European Association for Lexicography, 2022)
    While there was arguably a need for multi-authored, multi-volume, metalexicographic handbooks three decades ago – when the field of metalexicography was still ‘young’ – it is a bit puzzling to make sense of the current ...
  • Reduplication in Lusoga 
    Marlo, Michael R.; Nabirye, Minah; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Peeters Online Journals, 2022)
    This paper provides an in‑depth description of reduplication of verbs, nouns, and other word categories in Lusoga, drawing on introspected and elicited data, along with data from dictionaries and corpus texts, as well as ...
  • 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 ...
  • ‘Go beka’: Legato le bohlokwa la lenyalo la setšo 
    Sefoka, Moipone Magdalina; Mojalefa, Mawatle Jeremiah (Jerry) (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2021)
    Nepokgolo ya nyakišišo ye ke go tsinkela lenyalo la setšo sa Bapedi go hlokometšwe kudu setšhaba sa ba Matlala ba tikologo ya Moutse. Go bile le dinyakišišo tšeo di dirilwego mabapi le lenyalo la setšo sa Bapedi. Le ge go ...
  • A writing assistant en route to a full computational grammar for Sepedi 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Prinsloo, Daniel (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2021)
    A detailed user study and observations by lecturers indicate that the correct compilation of sentences in the eight verbal moods as well as for a number of similar grammatically complicated constructions in Sepedi poses a ...
  • Lexicographic treatment of salient features and challenges in the creation of paper and electronic dictionaries 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (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 ...
  • A cross-linguistic study of blood metaphors in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho 
    Bosman, Nerina; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (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 ...
  • Lexicographic data boxes. Part 2. Types and contents of data boxes with particular focus on dictionaries for English and African languages 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Gouws, Rufus H. (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 ...
  • Beryl T. (Sue) Atkins lexicographer from A to Z 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2021)
    No abstract available.
  • Lexicographic data boxes. Part 1. Lexicographic data boxes as text constituents in dictionaries 
    Gouws, Rufus H.; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (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, ...
  • Lexicographic data boxes. Part 3. Aspects of data boxes in bilingual dictionaries and a perspective on current and future data boxes 
    Gouws, Rufus H.; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (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 ...