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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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(University of Pretoria, 2020)This is a critical and comparative study that examines the blossoming and maturation of the Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho) Young Adult (YA) novella from the canon of novels in that language. The periods under examination ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study examines Mologadi Ngwana’ Magolego Sepedi tale Mo_emane wa moimana as an example of fantasy. Fantasy as a genre creates a headache for theorists, because they struggle to distinguish this genre from other types ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This study demonstrates one possible way of countering social stratification and creating an inclusive South African identity–renewing the South African national narrative to include the narratives of the people groups ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The aim of this study is to compare and contrast isiZulu and Sepedi detective narratives, a genre which has not been fully embraced by literary scholars and authors in the African languages. The intention is to compare and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020-08-31)Terminology development plays a significant role in the development of a language. IsiNdebele, as a South African language in its developmental stages, has been the focus of a great deal of attention since the dawning of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)In indigenous African societies, cultural expectations compel women to restrict themselves from excelling in whatever they do as a way of conforming to prevailing customary expectations. This is because those women who ...
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(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 ...
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(NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2019)This article reports on the analysis of three major markers of necessity in Luganda, i.e. the modal auxiliaries -téekw- and -lina and the verbal prefix -andi-. On the basis a 4-million-word corpus it is argued that, overall, ...
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Determining a Zulu core vocabulary for children who use augmentative and alternative communication (Taylor and Francis, 2019)Vocabulary selection is an important aspect to consider when designing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems for children who have not yet developed conventional literacy skills. AAC team members have ...