This article focuses on morphological and semantic analysis as well as lexicographic treatment of a specific type of compound noun whose initial part is a so-called ‘abbreviated noun’, which in the case of Zulu is -so- or ...

Bantu languages have a number of grammatical genders which are paired into singular/plural classes. The purpose of this article is to find solutions for some of the agreement arising from the conjunction of two or more ...

The development of finite-state morphological analyser prototypes for a variety of languages belonging to the Bantu language family, based on underlying machine-readable lexicons that conform to common lexical specifications ...

The development of a large-coverage, computational morphological analyser for Zulu requires the modelling not only of the regular phenomena often associated with word formation, but also the idiosyncratic behaviour that ...

Language resources, by their very nature, serve as a repository oflinguistic knowledge. They are therefore essential in the building and improvement of natural language applications. The aim of this paper is to elaborate ...

This paper addresses the experimental bootstrapping of the development of broad-coverage finite-state morphological analysers for Xhosa, Swati and (Southern) Ndebele by using an existing prototype of a morphological analyser ...

Conceptually, finite-state approaches are well suited to the modelling and implementation of regular linguistic (in this case morphophonological) behaviour. However, it is common knowledge that, while morphophonological ...

As one of the largest of the 11 official languages of South Africa, Zulu is spoken by approximately 9 million people. It forms part of a language family which is characterized by rich agglutinating morphological structures. ...

Language resources, by their very nature, serve as a repository oflinguistic knowledge. They are therefore essential in the building and improvement of natural language applications. The aim of this paper is to elaborate ...

Subject agreement with denominal copulatives appears not to be compulsory, as is the case with verbs.Zulu grammarians are not,however,of one mind regarding the usage of the subject concord in denominal copulative constructions. ...