Adoption is an unavoidable type of linguistic behaviour that occurs when two or more languages are in a state of contact with each other. Adoption is the introduction of single words or short frozen phrases from one variety ...

In this article, Shika Kgomedi Lekgothoane's artistic poetic works collected in ‘Praises of Animals in Northern Sotho’ (Van Warmelo, 1937) are assessed on three parts: a biographical sketch, a text and a reader in order ...

Researchers in linguistic and lexicographic fields such as Nkondo (1987: 70) and Kam-wangamalu (1997: 89) assert that no language is lexically self-sufficient. According to Jafta (1987: 127), the reason for this is because ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The aim of this article is to illustrate the importance of the concept "mystery" in the classification of Sepedi detective stories. Mystery is therefore first defined, and then some rules governing how mystery is created ...

Working with corpora in the South African Bantu languages has up till now been limited to the utilisation of raw corpora. Such corpora, however, have limited functionality. Thus the next logical step in any NLP application ...