Current Lexicography Practice in Bantu with Specific Reference to the Oxford Northern Sotho School Dictionary

Prinsloo, D.J.

doi:10.1093/ijl/ecp009

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“…Subsequent publications dealing with problematic aspects of lemmatisation in African languages, such as Prinsloo (1994), Prinsloo and Gouws (1996), Prinsloo and De Schryver (1999) and Prinsloo (2009) Then, he refutes the claim that stem lemmatisation is more economical, in terms of dictionary space, than word lemmatisation. Thirdly, he highlights the misconception that verbal affixation and nominal affixation are equally productive and therefore necessitate stem lemmatisation for nouns.…”

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Section: The Stem Versus the Word Tradition In Lemmatisationmentioning

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A Critical Analysis of the Lemmatisation of Nouns and Verbs in isiZulu

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2012

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Abstract:This article is a critical evaluation of lemmatisation strategies for nouns and verbs in isiZulu with specific attention to the problem of stem identification. The presumed target users of dictionaries compiled according to these lemmatisation strategies are non-mother tongue learners of isiZulu. The advantages versus disadvantages of lemmatising verbal and nominal stems, verbal and nominal stems without suffixes, and nominal words will be considered mainly in terms of the entire paradigm containing the verbal root -sebenz-from an isiZulu corpus. The conclusion reached is that word lemmatisation is preferred over both stem lemmatisation and lemmatisation of stems without suffixes. It will be argued that the problem of stem identification can only be solved in electronic dictionaries and the electronic dictionary isiZulu.net will be analysed in this regard.

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“…The overarching theoretical framework was described in my PhD thesis (De Schryver 2004), and to date two dictionaries -the Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary: Northern Sotho and English (De Schryver 2007), and the Oxford Bilingual School Dictionary: Zulu and English (De Schryver 2010) -have been completed and published. An accompanying workbook was also prepared for the Northern Sotho dictionary (Taljard et al 2008), 1 and both dictionaries have received favourable academic reviews; see for instance Prinsloo (2009) for the Northern Sotho dictionary, and Prinsloo (2010) for the Zulu dictionary.…”

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Revolutionizing Bantu Lexicography — A Zulu Case Study

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2011

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Zulu uses a conjunctive writing system, that is, a system whereby relatively short linguistic words are joined together to form long orthographic words with complex morphological structures. This has led to the so-called 'stem tradition' in dictionary making -for Zulu, as well as for most other Bantu languages. Given this lemmatization approach has been found to be inadequate for young learners (who fail to isolate stems), the development of a new approach was imperative for them, but until recently deemed impossible to implement. In this paper it is argued that it is now perfectly possible to reverse the unproductive trend, and to opt for the lemmatization of full words for all but one of the word classes in Bantu. This revolution is made possible thanks to the recent availability of relatively large corpora, with which the really frequent citation options may be pinpointed. Rather than a mission statement, this paper offers the result for all word classes. To do so, an actual guide to the use of a Zulu dictionary is re-represented and annotated.

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Current Lexicography Practice in Bantu with Specific Reference to the Oxford Northern Sotho School Dictionary

Cited by 34 publications

References 11 publications

Lexikos 21

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A Critical Analysis of the Lemmatisation of Nouns and Verbs in isiZulu

Revolutionizing Bantu Lexicography — A Zulu Case Study

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