Towards a part-of-speech ontology : encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languages

dc.contributor.authorFaab, Gertrud
dc.contributor.authorBosch, Sonja
dc.contributor.authorTaljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth)
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-11T11:24:21Z
dc.date.available2014-06-11T11:24:21Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis 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 African Bantu group: Northern Sotho and Zulu. These languages differ significantly in their surface orthographies, but are very similar on the lexical and sub-lexical levels. It is therefore our goal to describe the morphemes of these languages in a single common database in order to outline and interpret commonalities and differences in more detail. Moreover, the relational database which is developed defines the underlying morphemic units (morphs) for both languages. It will be shown that the electronic part-ofspeech ontology goes hand in hand with part-of-speech tagsets that label morphemic units. This database is designed as part of a forthcoming system providing lexicographic and linguistic knowledge on the official South African Bantu languages.en_US
dc.description.librarianam2014en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF, Funding number 55516493en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.njas.helsinki.fi/en_US
dc.identifier.citationFaab, G, Bosch, S & Taljard, E 2012, 'Towards a part-of-speech ontology : encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languages', Nordic Journal of African Studies, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 118-140.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1459-9465
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/40114
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNordic Association of African Studiesen_US
dc.rightsNordic Association of African Studiesen_US
dc.subjectPart-of-speech ontologyen_US
dc.subjectMorpho-syntactic databaseen_US
dc.subjectTaggingen_US
dc.subjectNorthern Sothoen_US
dc.subjectZuluen_US
dc.titleTowards a part-of-speech ontology : encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languagesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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