The trends emerging in the natural language processing (NLP) of African languages spoken in South Africa, are explored in order to determine whether research in and development of such NLP is keeping abreast of international ...

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 Constitution of South Africa is the fundamental guideline determining the way the country should be managed and governed. At the time of its drafting, the main aim of the Constitution was to heal the divisions of the ...

In this paper the development of computational morphological analysers for six South African Bantu languages is discussed. Due to the rich agglutinating morphological structures of these languages, the morphological ...

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 ...

Reports that various research projects have been conducted on the portrayal of women in the different genres of literature. Maintanis that most scholars who focus on the depiction of women in literature agree that women ...

Abstract: The binary division of morphological processes into derivation and inflection was originally devised with regard to the classical languages. This division is often challenged by data from individual languages, ...

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 ...

This article explores the argument that black South Africans identify themselves readily with their ethnic groups when it comes to activities such as listening to the radio or singing songs in their respective indigenous ...

Languages express the needs of their users, opening windows to information and knowledge. A language of excellence and empowerment is seen through the quantity of literature and thought it can express. In the information ...