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Browsing African Languages by UP Author "De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice"
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Clist, Bernard; Cranshof, Els; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Herremans, Davy; Karklins, Karlis; Matonda, Igor; Steyaert, Fanny; Bostoen, Koen
(Springer, 2015-08)
Ngongo Mbata, the main and most affluent center of the Kongo kingdom’s
Mbata province in the seventeenth century, is well known from the historical sources, but
virtually unexplored in archaeological publications. Ngongo ...
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Clist, Bernard; Cranshof, Els; De Maret, Pierre; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Kaumba, Mandela; Matonda, Igor; Nikis, Nicolas; Bostoen, Koen
(Antiquity Publications, 2015-10)
The Kongo kingdom, which arose in Central Africa’s Atlantic coast region, is an emblem of
Africa’s past and an important cultural landmark for Africans and the African Diaspora
(Figure 1). As a result of its early ...
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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 ...
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Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
(Routledge, 2016-06)
This article offers a distributional corpus analysis of the Northern Sotho noun and
gender system. The aim is twofold: first, to assess whether the existing descriptions of the noun
class system in Northern Sotho are ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Kawalya, Deo; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen
(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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Kawalya, Deo; Bostoen, Koen; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
(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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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 ...
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Kawalya, Deo; Bostoen, Koen; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2014)
In this article the semantic evolution of the modal verb -sóból- in Luganda is
examined through the analysis of a diachronic corpus spanning the last 120
years. It is shown that the usage frequency of this verb increased ...
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Lew, Robert; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
(Oxford Press, 2014-12)
This contribution examines the digital revolution in lexicography from the perspective
of the dictionary user. We begin with an observation that in the information age the
status of the dictionary is changing, and so are ...
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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 ...
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Clist, Bernard; Cranshof, Els; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Herremans, Davy; Karklins, Karlis; Matonda, Igorff; Polet, Caroline; Sengeløv, Amanda; Steyaert, Fanny; Verhaeghe, Charlotte; Bostoen, Koen
(Springer, 2015-09)
We present results, analyses, and an in-depth historical contextualization
of the fieldwork undertaken in 2012 and 2013 at the Kindoki site in the
Lower Congo (DRC). This site is linked to Mbanza Nsundi, one of the ...
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Mberamihigo, Ferdinand; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen
(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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Mberamihigo, Ferdinand; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen
(De Gruyter, 2016-10)
La présente étude concerne l’évolution sémantique et formelle d’un
adverbe épistémique du kirundi, umeengo/umeenga, les deux formes constituant
des variantes libres. Elle est une des premières études s’inscrivant en ...
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De Kind, Jasper; Dom, Sebastian; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen
(De Gruyter, 2015-11)
Across Bantu, several polysemic markers expressing progressive
aspect and so-called predication focus have been reported (Güldemann 2003;
Hyman and Watters 1984). In this article, we examine two such markers in
Kikongo ...
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Kawalya, Deo; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Bostoen, Koen
(Elsevier, 2018-04)
This article offers a synchronic and diachronic analysis of the use and meaning of the verbal prefix -andi- in the Great Lakes Bantu language Luganda (JE15). On the basis of a text corpus of 4 million tokens, we show that ...
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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 ...
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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. ...