A corpus-driven account of the noun classes and genders in Northern Sotho
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- Elsabé Taljard and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)
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- This article offers a distributional corpus analysis of the Northern Sotho noun and gender system. The aim is twofold: first, to assess whether the existing descriptions of the noun class system in Northern Sotho are corroborated by information provided by the analysis of a large electronic corpus for this language, with specific reference to singular-plural pairings, and second, to present a number of novel visualisation aids to characterise a noun class system (in a radar diagram) and a noun gender system (using a two-directional weighted representation) for Northern Sotho in particular, and for any Bantu language in general. The findings include the discovery of two new genders in Northern Sotho (i.e. class pairs 1/6 and 3/10), and also indicate that the Northern Sotho noun class system, and by extension any one for Bantu, should be seen as dynamic.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8054249
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- Taljard, Elsabé, and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. “A Corpus-Driven Account of the Noun Classes and Genders in Northern Sotho.” SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES, vol. 34, no. 2, 2016, pp. 169–85, doi:10.2989/16073614.2016.1206478.
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- Taljard, E., & de Schryver, G.-M. (2016). A corpus-driven account of the noun classes and genders in Northern Sotho. SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES, 34(2), 169–185. https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2016.1206478
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- Taljard, Elsabé, and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. 2016. “A Corpus-Driven Account of the Noun Classes and Genders in Northern Sotho.” SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES 34 (2): 169–85. https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2016.1206478.
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- Taljard, Elsabé, and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. 2016. “A Corpus-Driven Account of the Noun Classes and Genders in Northern Sotho.” SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES 34 (2): 169–185. doi:10.2989/16073614.2016.1206478.
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- 1.Taljard E, de Schryver G-M. A corpus-driven account of the noun classes and genders in Northern Sotho. SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES. 2016;34(2):169–85.
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- [1]E. Taljard and G.-M. de Schryver, “A corpus-driven account of the noun classes and genders in Northern Sotho,” SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 169–185, 2016.
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abstract = {{This article offers a distributional corpus analysis of the Northern Sotho noun and gender system. The aim is twofold: first, to assess whether the existing descriptions of the noun class system in Northern Sotho are corroborated by information provided by the analysis of a large electronic corpus for this language, with specific reference to singular-plural pairings, and second, to present a number of novel visualisation aids to characterise a noun class system (in a radar diagram) and a noun gender system (using a two-directional weighted representation) for Northern Sotho in particular, and for any Bantu language in general. The findings include the discovery of two new genders in Northern Sotho (i.e. class pairs 1/6 and 3/10), and also indicate that the Northern Sotho noun class system, and by extension any one for Bantu, should be seen as dynamic.}},
author = {{Taljard, Elsabé and de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice}},
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journal = {{SOUTHERN AFRICAN LINGUISTICS AND APPLIED LANGUAGE STUDIES}},
keywords = {{BANTU}},
language = {{eng}},
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pages = {{169--185}},
title = {{A corpus-driven account of the noun classes and genders in Northern Sotho}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2016.1206478}},
volume = {{34}},
year = {{2016}},
}
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