Text variability measures in corpus design for Setswana lexicography / by Thapelo J. Otlogetswe.
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TextPublication details: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.Description: 1 online resource ([xv], 318 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781443826372
- 1443826375
- 9781443827522
- 1443827525
- 1283142082
- 9781283142083
- Tswana language -- Lexicography
- Corpora (Linguistics)
- Tswana language -- Botswana
- Tswana language -- South Africa
- Tswana language
- Tswana (Langue) -- Lexicographie
- Corpus (Linguistique)
- Tswana (Langue)
- Dictionaries
- Lexicography
- Computational linguistics
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- African Languages
- Corpora (Linguistics)
- Tswana language
- Botswana
- South Africa
- 496.397753028 22
- PL8747.4 .O85 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-292) and index.
Print version record.
This book is about the design of a Setswana corpus for lexicography. While various corpora have been compiled and a variety of corpora-based research has been attempted in African languages, no effort has been made towards corpus design. Additionally, although extensive analysis of the Setswana language has been done by missionaries, grammarians and linguists since the 1800s, none of this research is in corpus design. Most research has been largely on the grammatical study of the language. T ...
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