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  • A series of foundation phase dictionaries for a multilingual environment 
    Gouws, Rufus H.; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Dlali, Mawande (Stellenbosch University, 2014)
    The aim of this article is to reflect on the design and use of the Maskew Miller Longman series of dictionaries published in several different official languages of South Africa and aimed at learners in the foundation phase ...
  • Significance of speech production errors on cross-linguistic processing in Sepedi-English individuals with bilingual aphasia : a case series analysis 
    Van Zyl, Mianda; Pillay, Bhavani S.; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Lekganyane, Matemane; Graham, Marien Alet (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 ...
  • Songs by female diviner initiates from Zwelibomvu in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa : a response to patriarchal abuse in their society 
    Zondi, Nompumelelo Bernadette (Routledge, 2019)
    Indigenous societies that are steeped in patriarchy have various avenues through which they deal with the abuse characteristic of relations in some of these communities. One such route is songs which allow women to voice ...
  • Stereotyping in the novel Moelelwa : the dichotomy between laziness and maternal duties 
    Makgabo, Mmamoyahabo Constance; Ramagoshi, Refilwe M.; Zondi, Nompumelelo Bernadette (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2021)
    Some Sepedi authors perceive women as having to be confined to the home to only perform maternal duties, and women are ridiculed for not being able to fulfill the responsibilities of womanhood. This perception extends to ...
  • Subtitling, semiotics and spirited away 
    Sanders, Lisa (European Association for Studies in Screen Translation, 2022-03)
    When translating a film according to typical subtitling models, the focus is usually solely on the dialogue of the film. Furthermore, the resulting translations are often impoverished to a large extent due to the constraints ...
  • Surrogaatekwivalensie in tweetalige woordeboeke met spesifieke verwysing na zero-ekwivalensie in Afrikataalwoordeboeke 
    Gouws, Rufus H.; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2010-12)
    Tweetalige woordeboeke word om die onttrekking van verskillende tipes inligting geraadpleeg. Die datatipe waaraan die gemiddelde en kundige gebruiker van tweetalige woordeboeke die grootste behoefte het en wat daarom die ...
  • Tladi wa Dikgati : Sengwalo sa phatose [‘pathos’] 
    Kekana, T.S.; Mojalefa, M.J. (Mawatle Jeremiah), 1948- (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2018-06)
    Ka lebaka la gore ditiragalo tša phatose di fela di hlakahlakanywa bobading le bosekaseking bja masetlapelo, taodišwane ye e yo ahlaahla kanegelo ya phatose ge e nepiša mohuta wa sengwalo sa kwešišano sa go lebana le ...
  • 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 ...
  • Towards a part-of-speech ontology : encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languages 
    Faab, Gertrud; Bosch, Sonja; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Nordic Association of African Studies, 2012)
    This article describes the design of an electronic knowledge base, namely a morpho-syntactic database structured as an ontology of linguistic categories, containing linguistic units of two related languages of the South ...
  • Use of LSP dictionaries in secondary schools - a South African case study 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Fricke, Irene (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2011)
    This article reports on the results of a broad evaluation of the efficacy of the Multilingual Explanatory Science Dictionary and Multilingual Explanatory Math Dictionary in a multilingual educational environment. The aim ...
  • When chaos is the god of an era : rediscovering an Axis Mundi in Ben Okri’s Starbook (2007) 
    Gray, Rosemary A. (Indiana University Press, 2013-01)
    The article begins by contextualizing Ben Okri’s concept of reality within a traditional, cultural framework. A brief discussion of the trajectory of African writing and the standard classifications of the mode of the ...
  • Woordgroepvers 
    Groenewald, P.S. (Pieter Schalk) (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2011)
    ’n Taaluiting in versvorm bestaan uit linguistiese en metriese eenhede. Die versgeheel bestaan uit minstens ’n sin en ’n vers en twee segmente. Die beginsels wat versvorm onderlê, is verdeling en ekwivalensie. Die geheel ...
  • A writing assistant en route to a full computational grammar for Sepedi 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Prinsloo, Daniel (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2021)
    A detailed user study and observations by lecturers indicate that the correct compilation of sentences in the eight verbal moods as well as for a number of similar grammatically complicated constructions in Sepedi poses a ...