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  • Cattle and their colours : a synchronic investigation of cattle colour terminology in Northern Sotho 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Routledge, 2015-12)
    In Northern Sotho, a separate colour lexicon is distinguished, containing terms which are believed to be used exclusively as colour terms to describe not only the colours, but also the colour patterning found among ...
  • Child abuse in Setswana folktales 
    Ramagoshi, Refilwe M.; Maree, J.G. (Kobus); Alexander, Daleen; Molepo, Maisha M. (Taylor & Francis, 2007-05)
    This article examines the possible role played by African folk literature, taking Setswana folktales as a case in point, in justifying and perpetuating the abusive behaviour so often witnessed and decried in postmodern ...
  • 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 ...
  • Corpus-based language teaching : an African language perspective 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (NISC, 2012-12-19)
    Studies on corpus-based language teaching are notably absent within the South African educational context; more so with regard to the teaching of African languages. This article explores the possibilities offered by the ...
  • 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 ...
  • A corpus-driven account of the noun classes and genders in Northern Sotho 
    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 ...
  • 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 corpus-driven study of the expression of necessity in Luganda (Bantu, JE15) 
    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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Determining a Zulu core vocabulary for children who use augmentative and alternative communication 
    Mngomezulu, Jocelyn; Tonsing, Kerstin Monika; Dada, Shakila; Bokaba, Nomadlozi Brenda (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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • A diachronic corpus-driven study of the expression of possibility in Luganda (Bantu, JE15) 
    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-, ...