A computational implementation of the Northern Sotho infinitive
| dc.contributor.author | Faab, Gertrud | |
| dc.contributor.author | Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- | |
| dc.contributor.email | danie.prinsloo@up.ac.za | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-07-23T06:45:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-07-23T06:45:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-10-21 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 time – ‘it manifests both nominal as well as verbal features’ (Poulos & Louwrens, 1994:42). When implementing these constellations in a parser, however, a new perspective is found: to achieve its successful implementation, the infinitive must be defined as a verb on the one hand and as a noun of class 15 on the other, derived from this verb through nominalization (transposition). Instead of a subject concord, the verb stem in the infinitive is preceded by the respective class prefix. | en |
| dc.description.librarian | nf2012 | en |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.nisconline.com/index.php/sajal/index | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Faaβ, G & Prinsloo, DJ 2011, 'A computational implementation of the Northern Sotho infinitive', South African Journal of African Languages, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 281-301. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0257-2117 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/19478 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | African Language Association of Southern Africa | en_US |
| dc.rights | African Language Association of Southern Africa | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Northern Sotho language -- Infinitive | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Northern Sotho language -- Noun | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax | en |
| dc.title | A computational implementation of the Northern Sotho infinitive | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |