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  • African language dictionaries for children - a neglected genre 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2019)
    Children's dictionaries are instrumental in establishing a dictionary culture and are the gateway to sustained and informed dictionary use. It is therefore surprising that very little attention is paid to these dictionaries ...
  • African-European contacts in the Kongo kingdom (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) : new archaeological insights from Ngongo Mbata (lower Congo, DRC) 
    Clist, Bernard; Cranshof, Els; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Herremans, Davy; Karklins, Karlis; Matonda, Igor; Steyaert, Fanny; Bostoen, Koen (Springer, 2015-08)
    Ngongo Mbata, the main and most affluent center of the Kongo kingdom’s Mbata province in the seventeenth century, is well known from the historical sources, but virtually unexplored in archaeological publications. Ngongo ...
  • Afrikataalleksikografie : gister, vandag en more 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Buro van die WAT, 2017)
    Hierdie artikel het ten doel om 'n perspektief te bied op Afrikataalleksikografie se reaksie op ontwikkelings in die internasionale leksikografiepraktyk met betrekking tot nuwe tendense en veranderinge wat hoofsaaklik deur ...
  • 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 ...
  • Archaeological research on the Kongo kingdom in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa 
    Clist, Bernard; Cranshof, Els; De Maret, Pierre; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Kaumba, Mandela; Matonda, Igor; Nikis, Nicolas; Bostoen, Koen (Antiquity Publications, 2015-10)
    The Kongo kingdom, which arose in Central Africa’s Atlantic coast region, is an emblem of Africa’s past and an important cultural landmark for Africans and the African Diaspora (Figure 1). As a result of its early ...
  • Beryl T. (Sue) Atkins lexicographer from A to Z 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2021)
    No abstract available.
  • 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 ...
  • Building a paralympic, frame-based dictionary - towards an inclusive design for Dicionário Paraolímpico (Unisinos/Brazil) 
    Chishman, Rove; Da Silva, Bruna; Nardes dos Santos, A; Vianna, A.L.; De Oliveira, S.; Martins, M.L.; De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (European Association for Lexicography, 2021)
    This paper presents some theoretical and methodological issues emanating from the building of Dicionário Paraolímpico (Paralympic Dictionary), an online lexicographical resource that will describe the lexicon of Paralympic ...
  • Cattle and their colours : a synchronic investigation of cattle colour terminology in Northern Sotho 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Routledge, 2015-12)
    In Northern Sotho, a separate colour lexicon is distinguished, containing terms which are believed to be used exclusively as colour terms to describe not only the colours, but also the colour patterning found among ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Collocations and grammatical patterns in a multilingual online term bank 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Buro van die WAT, 2015)
    This article considers the importance of including various types of collocations in a terminological database, with the aim of making this information available to the user via the user interface. We refer specifically to ...
  • Comparative analysis of black queer feminist isiXhosa and English poetry 
    Chidi, Tsosheletso; Zondi, Nompumelelo; Mkhize, Gabi (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association, 2024-06-26)
    Black queer feminist literature remains under-researched. This reflects the societal marginalisation of black queer authors in South Africa. Our article offers a comparative analysis of the representation of black queer ...
  • 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 ...
  • Consumptive and non-consumptive uses of water beetles (Aquatic coleopterans) in sub-Saharan traditional rituals 
    Mnisi, Lucky Nhlanhla; Zondi, Nompumelelo B.; Pikirayi, Innocent (MDPI, 2023-09)
    The use of wild animals in customary rituals and as a sustenance resource is a longstanding tradition within sub-Saharan Africa. The emergence of commercial trade, has, however, created unattainable demands and has led ...
  • 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 ...
  • Corpus-based lexicography for lesser-resourced languages - maximizing the limited corpus 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2015)
    This article focuses on lesser-resourced languages for which only very limited corpora are available and how such relatively small and often unbalanced, raw corpora could be maximally utilized for lexicographic purposes ...
  • A corpus-driven account of the noun classes and genders in Northern Sotho 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Routledge, 2016-06)
    This article offers a distributional corpus analysis of the Northern Sotho noun and gender system. The aim is twofold: first, to assess whether the existing descriptions of the noun class system in Northern Sotho are ...
  • Corpus-driven Bantu lexicography Part 1 : Organic corpus building for Lusoga 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Nabirye, Minah (Buro van die WAT, 2018)
    This article is the first in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the building of a so-called 'organic corpus' from scratch, while the next two ...
  • Corpus-driven Bantu lexicography Part 2 : Lemmatisation and rulers for Lusoga 
    De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Nabirye, Minah (Buro van die WAT, 2018)
    This article is the second in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicogra-phy, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the macrostructure and in particular on the building of a lemmatised frequency ...