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Author :University of Botswana. Department of African Languages and Literature Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :88 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The Sound System of Setswana by : University of Botswana. Department of African Languages and Literature
Download or read book The Sound System of Setswana written by University of Botswana. Department of African Languages and Literature and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Sound System of Setswana by : Casper Jan Hendrik Krüger
Download or read book The Sound System of Setswana written by Casper Jan Hendrik Krüger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Text Variability Measures in Corpus Design for Setswana Lexicography by : Thapelo J. Otlogetswe
Download or read book Text Variability Measures in Corpus Design for Setswana Lexicography written by Thapelo J. Otlogetswe and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The recent corpora research in African languages in general has been on the use of corpora for the compilation of dictionaries and little of it is in corpus design. Pioneers of this kind of corpora research in African languages are Prinsloo and De Schryver (1999), De Schryver and Prisloo (2000 and 2001) and Gouws and Prisloo (2005). Because of a lack of research in corpora design particularly in African languages, this book attempts to fill that gap, especially for Setswana. It is hoped that the finding of this study will inspire similar designs in other languages comparable to Setswana. We explore corpus design by focusing on measuring a variety of text types for lexical richness at comparable token points. The study explores the question of whether a corpus compiled for lexicography must comprise a variety of texts drawn from different text types or whether the quality of retrieved information for lexicographic purposes from a corpus comprising diverse text varieties could be equally extracted from a corpus with a single text type. This study therefore determines whether linguistic variability is crucial in corpus design for lexicography.
Book Synopsis Elementary Phonetics of Setswana by : Casper Jan Hendrik Krüger
Download or read book Elementary Phonetics of Setswana written by Casper Jan Hendrik Krüger and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Botswana by : Fred Morton
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Botswana written by Fred Morton and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-04-23 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Botswana_through its chronology, introductory essay, appendixes, map, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, institutions, and significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects_provides an important reference on this burgeoning African country.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Botswana by : Barry Morton
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Botswana written by Barry Morton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of Botswana’s last founding father, Sir Ketumile Quett Masire, in June 2017, marked the end of an era. Since the release of the Fourth Edition of Historical Dictionary of Botswana in 2008, Botswana has gone through its most turbulent and divided decade to date. Throughout September 2016, when Botswana celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence, all the successes of the Seretse and Masire era were sources of massive national pride. Botswana had expanded provisions of electricity, water, education, and health services to almost all of its people and become a model nation that owned its natural resources and plowed the profits back into the nation’s development. Despite these successes, Botswana has a high unemployment rate (about 20 percent) and a much larger cohort of the underemployed. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of Botswana contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and more than 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities and aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Botswana.
Book Synopsis Theory and description in African Linguistics by : Emily Clem
Download or read book Theory and description in African Linguistics written by Emily Clem and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume were presented at the 47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics at UC Berkeley in 2016. The papers offer new descriptions of African languages and propose novel theoretical analyses of them. The contributions span topics in phonetics, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and reflect the typological and genetic diversity of languages in Africa. Four papers in the volume examine Areal Features and Linguistic Reconstruction in Africa, and were presented at a special workshop on this topic held alongside the general session of ACAL.
Book Synopsis Globalisation and African Languages by : Katrin Bromber
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Book Synopsis Language Science and Language technology in Africa by : Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza
Download or read book Language Science and Language technology in Africa written by Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a broad overview of current work on South African languages, language resources and language technologies. While it provides a fairly comprehensive overview, it also ties together the most recent knowledge state here, and is therefore truly innovative ? The book is therefore informed by current international trends in the respective fields of science, and feeds back into them ? There is absolutely no doubt that the book has an academic peer audience and is directed at specialists in the field. - Prof. Axel Fleisch, University of Helsinki, Finland
Book Synopsis The Languages of Africa and the Diaspora by : Jo Anne Kleifgen
Download or read book The Languages of Africa and the Diaspora written by Jo Anne Kleifgen and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a fresh look at subordinated vernacular languages in the context of African, Caribbean, and US educational landscapes, highlighting the social cost of linguistic exceptionalism for speakers of these languages. Chapters describe contravening movements toward various forms of linguistic diversity and offer a comprehensive approach to language awareness in educative settings.
Book Synopsis Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages by : Lívia Körtvélyessy
Download or read book Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages written by Lívia Körtvélyessy and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the very first publication mapping onomatopoeia in the languages of the world. The publication provides a comprehensive, multi-level description of onomatopoeia in the world’s languages. The sample covers six macro-areas defined in the WALS: Euroasia, Africa, South America, North America, Australia, Papunesia. Each language-descriptive chapter specifies phonological, morphological, word-formation, semantic, and syntactic properties of onomatopoeia in the particular language. Furthermore, it provides information about the approach to onomatopoeia in individual linguistic traditions, the sources of data on onomatopoeia, the place and the function of onomatopoeia in the system of each language.
Book Synopsis The Role of Speech Perception in Phonology by : Keith Johnson
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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Language by : David Crystal
Download or read book A Dictionary of Language written by David Crystal and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No ordinary dictionary, David Crystal's Dictionary of Language includes not only descriptions of hundreds of languages literally from A to Z (Abkhaz to Zyryan) and definitions of literary and grammatical concepts, but also explanations of terms used in linguistics, language teaching, and speech pathology. If you are wondering how many people speak Macedonian, Malay, or Makua, or if you're curious about various theories of the origins of language, or if you were always unsure of the difference between structuralism, semiotics, and sociolinguistics, this superbly authoritative dictionary will answer all of your questions and hundred of others.
Book Synopsis Birth of a National Language by : Tore Janson
Download or read book Birth of a National Language written by Tore Janson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Birth of a National Language provides essential reading for those interested in the development, usage and future of Setswana in Botswana. This well-researched study traces the development of Setswana from the earliest known records to its present status as a national language in Botswana. The complex relationships between nation, language, and society is discussed in detail, with reference to both historical and geographical influences. Special emphasis is placed on the linguistic consequences of the great social changes brought about by independence in 1966, and a chapter is devoted to the very dynamic linguistic situation in the capital city, Gaborone. The Gaborone example leads to a more general discussion of recent semantic and lexical changes. The book concludes with an overview of the evolution of Setswana in Botswana, and a discussion of possible future developments based on comparisons with other languages." --cover page [4].
Author :University of Botswana. Department of African Languages and Literature Publisher :African Books Collective ISBN 13 : Total Pages :94 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The Structure of Setswana Sentences by : University of Botswana. Department of African Languages and Literature
Download or read book The Structure of Setswana Sentences written by University of Botswana. Department of African Languages and Literature and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2000 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second in a series in Setswana language, literature and culture, providing a uniquely comprehensive and systematic description of the grammar of Setswana, particularly at sentence level. It is based in the Standard Generative Theory of 1965, and deals with most aspects of the grammar: basic structure rules and rules which are lexical, transformational, semantic and phonological. All new terms and concepts are systematically explained.
Book Synopsis Languages in Botswana by : Lars-Gunnar Andersson
Download or read book Languages in Botswana written by Lars-Gunnar Andersson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mutjango Wu Shiyeyi by : A. M. Chebanne
Download or read book Mutjango Wu Shiyeyi written by A. M. Chebanne and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
