Browsing ALRI Staff Publications by Subject "corpus"
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Defining Formats and Corpus-based examples in the General Ndebele Dictionary, Isichazamazwi Sesindebele: A Critical Analysis
(2006-03-24)In this paper the writer critically evaluates the defining formats that were used in defining headwords in the first-ever-monolingual General Ndebele Dictionary, Isichazamazwi SeSiNdebele(ISN). The emphasis in the ISN was ... -
Linguistic Variation in Shona with Special Reference to Monolingual Dictionaries
(Bureau of the WAT, 2003)This article focuses on the problems lexicographers of monolingual dictionaries face when dealing with a language characterised by differences associated with geographical variation. The article specifically seeks to explore ... -
Problems of Equivalence in Shona- English Bilingual Dictionaries
(Bureau of the WAT, 2001)In compiling bilingual dictionaries, lexicographers are mostly concerned with seman- tic equivalence. As a result, the practice of bilingual dictionary compilers is usually that of giving one-word equivalents. However, ...
