Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language : a case study of neology detection in Lusoga

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De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice
Nabirye, Minah

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European Association for Lexicography

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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 purposes, in case for the detection of neologisms, both in terms of new words and new meanings, is investigated and found useful.

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This paper is part of the publication: Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette/Engelberg, Stefan/ Möhrs, Christine/Storjohann, Petra (eds.) (2022): Dictionaries and Society. Proceedings of the XX EURALEX International Congress. Mannheim: IDS-Verlag.

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Monitor corpus, Neology detection, New words, New meanings, Bantu, Lusoga

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De Schryver, G.M. & Nabirye, M. 2022, 'Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language : a case study of neology detection in Lusoga', EURALEX Proceedings, pp. 833-849.