Browsing Research Articles (African Languages) by Issue Date

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  • Geskiedenis van die Sepediskryfwyse 
    Esterhuyse, C.J.; Groenewald, P.S. (Pieter Schalk) (South African Association for Language Teaching, 1999-12)
    The development of Sepedi as a written language extends over a period of 100 years, from 1870 to 1967 when the current orthography was finalised. The missionaries, who were to put Sepedi to writing, were members of the ...
  • 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 ...
  • Mystery in Sepedi detective stories 
    Mojalefa, M.J. (Mawatle Jeremiah), 1948-; Magapa, N.I.; Mojalefa, Jerry (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2007-04)
    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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • On the development of a tagset for Northern Sotho with special reference to the issue of standardisation 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Faab, Gertrud; Heid, Ulrich; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2008)
    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 ...
  • Querying the claim of the user-friendliness of the New Sepedi Dictionary 
    Mojalefa, Jerry; Mojalefa, M.J. (Mawatle Jeremiah), 1948- (South African Asociation for Language Teaching, 2008)
    The New Sepedi Dictionary is a concise translating bilingual dictionary. Even though the compilers claim that this dictionary is very user-friendly, this can be queried. Accordingly, the main aim of this article is to ...
  • 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 ...
  • Divination expressed through poetry : the divinatory poems of Johannes Mokgwadi 
    Mojalefa, M.J. (Mawatle Jeremiah), 1948-; Mojalefa, Jerry (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2009)
    This article aims to explore the divinatory poems of Johannes Mokgwadi with special reference to their structure, role and tools of performance in the art of divination as practised still today by the Bapedi in some rural ...
  • Lekgothoane's praise poetry : an aesthetic discourse 
    Mojalefa, M.J. (Mawatle Jeremiah), 1948-; Mojalefa, Jerry (Editorial Garsi, 2010)
    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 ...
  • The (Ama)Ndebele of Africa and their name '(ama)Ndebele' 
    Skhosana, Philemon Buti (Editorial Garsi, 2010)
    Some scholars still continue to confuse or to misunderstand the relationship within the (ama)Ndebele of Africa as a result of the divergent opinions propounded by scholars regarding the historical origin these ethnic ...
  • 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 ...
  • Bilingual dictionary for a specific user group : supporting Setswana speakers in the production and reception of English 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Heid, Ulrich (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2011)
    The aim of this article is to discuss the design of a new English to Setswana dictionary for two narrowly defined target user groups of Setswana learners, i.e. Upper Primary (10 to 12 years old); and Junior Secondary (13 ...
  • Woordgroepvers 
    Groenewald, 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ngwaga wa Mopedi : seka sa ngwaga wa merafe ye mengwe ya Bibele 
    Mojalefa, M.J. (Mawatle Jeremiah), 1948-; Mojalefa, Jerry (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-11)
    Mopedi knows the sun, planets (stars), constellations and stars by names, but has a number of misconceptions different from other biblical nations regarding the universe. Every day is believed to bring a new sun and it ...
  • 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 ...
  • Leksikografiese bewerking van verwantskapsterme in Sepedi 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT/SU LIS, 2012)
    Die verwantskapsterminologie van Sepedi is omvangryk en vorm 'n komplekse sisteem. In teenstelling met tale soos Afrikaans, Engels en Duits word groter uitdagings aan die Sepedileksikograaf gestel ten opsigte van die ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...