A new way to lemmatize adjectives in a user-friendly Zulu-English dictionary

Lexikos

Volumn 18, Issue , 2008, Pages 63-91

  De Schryver, Gilles Maurice ^a,b,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c TshwaneDJe HLT   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adjective; Adjective stem; Bilingual; Collocation; Combination; Copulative adjective; Corpus; Derivation; Dictionary; English; Frequency; Grammar; Lemmatization; Lexicography; Linguistics; Qualificative adjective; Real example; User friendly; Zulu (IsiZulu)

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249585230     PISSN: 16844904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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