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African WordNet: a viable tool for sense discrimination in the indigenous African languages of South Africa

Mojapelo, Mampaka L.; Madonsela, Stanley; Mafela, Munzhedzi James; Masubelele, Rose (2016)

In promoting a multilingual South Africa, the government is encouraging people to speak more than one language. In order to comply with this initiative, people choose to learn the languages which they do not speak as ...
The external arguments of weather verbs in Northern Sotho

Mojapelo, Mampaka L. (South African Journal of African Languages, 2003)

This article investigates the nature and occurrence of external arguments of weather verbs in Northern Sotho, with specific reference to the unaccusative hypothesis. Weather verbs are unaccusative. Their surface structure ...
The external arguments of weather verbs in Northern Sotho.

Mojapelo, Mampaka L. (African Language Association of Southern Africa., 2003)

This article investigates the nature and occurrence of external arguments of weather verbs in Northern Sotho, with specific reference to the unaccusative hypothesis. Weather verbs are unaccusative Their surface structure ...
Morphology and semantics of proper names in Northern Sotho

Mojapelo, Mampaka L. (Routledge, 2009)

The objective of this article is to present the identifying features of the Northern Sotho proper name as a subcategory of the broader word category N (noun). The article analyses the identifying morphological features and ...
Morphology and semantics of proper names in Northern Sotho

Mojapelo, Mampaka L. (2009)

The objective of this article is to present the identifying features of the Northern Sotho proper name as a subcategory of the broader word category N (noun). The article analyses the identifying morphological features ...
Morphosyntactic discrepencies in representing the adjective equivalent in African WordNet with reference to Northern Sotho

Mojapelo, Mampaka L. (2014)
Ngwana’ ditlhaka: early affirmation of motherhood

Mojapelo, Mampaka L. (2011)

Ngwana ’a ditlhaka (reed baby) is a traditional Northern Sotho concept that can roughly be equated to a fertility doll, an artefact that is familiar to many cultures. It is specifically made for a young woman, by elderly ...
Re-examining the relationship between the subject agreement morpheme and (in)definiteness in Northern Sotho

Mojapelo, Mampaka L. (2013)

The grammatical position of the subject noun phrase in Northern Sotho is to the left of the predicate. The subject agreement morpheme is a compulsory link between the subject noun phrase and the predicate. Scholars have ...
Semantics of body parts in African Wordnet: a case of Northern Sotho

Mojapelo, Mampaka L. (2016)
The semantics of Northern Sotho verbs as translated from English: comments on the African languages Wordnet Project.

Mojapelo, Mampaka L. (2013)
Storytelling and meaning reconstruction: a metaphorical perspective

Mojapelo, Mampaka L. (Southern African Folklore Studies, 2014)

Storytelling consists of an interaction between a narrator and a listener, both of whom assign meaning to the story as a whole and its component parts. The meaning assigned to the narrative changes over time under the ...

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