Revolutionizing Bantu lexicography - A Zulu case study

Lexikos

Volumn 20, Issue , 2010, Pages 161-201

  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; Corpus; Dictionary; Mini grammar; Stem vs. word lemmatization; Usage guide; User friendly; Word classes; Zulu

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751694344     PISSN: 16844904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/lex.v20i1.62689     Document Type: Article

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