Browsing by Author "Nabirye, Minah"

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  • 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 ...
  • Digitizing the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary : challenges and prospects 
    Nabirye, Minah; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Buro van die WAT, 2013)
    This article recounts the genesis, growth and turbulent events that accompanied the compilation of the Eiwanika ly'Olusoga, that is, the Monolingual Lusoga Dictionary. Contrasting academia with the trade, legacy with ...
  • Illustrations of the IPA : Lusoga (Lutenga) 
    Nabirye, Minah; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Verhoeven, Jo (Cambridge University Press, 2016-08)
    Lusoga is an interlacustrine Bantu language spoken in the eastern part of Uganda in the region of Busoga, which is surrounded by the Victoria Nile in the west, Lake Kyoga in the north, the River Mpologoma in the east and ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...