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A discussion of Hlonipha language among the Xhosa

Mayaba, Patricia Nogwali (1972-01)
Subject agreement with denominal copulatives in Zulu.

Bosch, Sonja E. (African Language Association of Southern Africa., 1986)

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. ...
Aspects of subject conjuction in Zulu

Bosch, S. E. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 1988)

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 value of typology in solving certain Zulu linguistic issues

Bosch, Sonja E. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 1993)

A typological study of a language family can throw light on specific linguistic issues in a language belonging to such a family.In Zulu there is for instance uncertainty regarding the use of the object agreement marker in ...
Possible origins of the possessive particle -ka- in Zulu.

Bosch, Sonja E. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 1997)

The aim of this article is to trace some of the possible origins of the possessive particle -ka- in Zulu, which occurs when the possessor noun is a noun of class 1a.Research done so far on the nature of -ka-,does not provide ...
'Abbreviated nouns' in African languages : a morphological, semantic and lexicographic perspective

Bosch, S. E.; Prinsloo, D. J. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2002)

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 ...
The significance of computational morphological analysis for Zulu lexicography

Bosch, Sonja E.; Pretorius, Laurette (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2002)

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 ...
Finite-State Computational Morphology - Treatment of the Zulu Noun

Pretorius, Laurette; Bosch, Sonja E. (2002)
Finite-State Computational Morphology: An Analyzer Prototype for Zulu

Pretorius, Laurette; Bosch, Sonja E. (2003)

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. ...
Towards technologically enabling the indigenous languages of South Africa: the central role of computational morphology

Bosch, Sonja E.; Pretorius, Laurette (2003)
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 ...
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 ...
Computational aids for Zulu natural language processing

Pretorius, Laurette; Bosch, Sonja E. (2003)

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 ...
Sandhi under the spotlight*

Kosch, Ingeborg M. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2003)

The term sandhi is not frequently encountered in discussions of morphophonemic modifications in the traditional grammars of the Bantu languages. It is a term which, even in linguistic research outside of the Bantu language ...
The significance of absence:The case of zero and empty morphs.

Kosch, Ingeborg M. (African Language Association of Southern Africa., 2004)

The morpheme is generaliy understood as a unit which has form as well as content, i.e. a physical substance (phonological and phonetic) and a meaning or function within a grammatical system. With reference to examples from ...
Special Issue : Human Language Technologies

Roux, Justus C.; Bosch, Sonja E. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2005)

This Special Issue of the South African Joumal of African Languages is dedicated to Human Language Technologies (HLT), and is the first of its kind in the history of the joumal. It provides an overview of some of the ...
Development of reusable resources for Human Language Technologies (HLT) applications:practice and experience.

Jones, J.; Bosch, Sonja E.; Pretorius, Laurette; Prinsloo, D.J. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2005)

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 ...
The Effectiveness of morphological rules for an isiZulu spelling checker

Bosch, Sonja E.; Roald, Eiselen (UNISA, 2005)

This paper shows how morphological analysis contributes to solving the challenges posed by the development of a spelling checker for an agglutinative language like isiZulu. It demonstrates how the incremental implementation ...
Discontinuous elements in morphology

Kosch, Ingeborg M. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2005)

This article probes into the nature of discontinuous elements in the morphology of some African languages, but in Northem Sotho in particular. The discussion is conducted against the backdrop of two principles which are ...
Knowledge production in what language? The Hegemonic Use of English as a Language of Commerce and Industry from a South African Perspective

Phaahla, Pinkie (Cascadilla Press, 2006)

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