The lexicographic treatment of ideophones in Zulu

Lexikos

Volumn 19, Issue , 2009, Pages 34-54

  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

Bantu; Bilingual; Corpus; Dictionary; English; Frequency; Ideophone; Lexicography; Paraphrase; Part of speech mismatch; Semantic import; Zulu (Isizulu)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949495985     PISSN: 16844904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/lex.v19i1.49068     Document Type: Article

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