Loan words versus indigenous words in Northern Sotho - A lexicographic perspective

Lexikos

Volumn 12, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-20

  Nong, Salmina ^a   De Schryver, Gilles Maurice ^a,b   Prinsloo, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Corpus; Descriptiveness; Dictionary; Indigenous word; Lemmatisation; Lexicography; Loan word; Northern Sotho (sepedi); Preference pattern; Prescriptiveness; Proscriptiveness; Questionnaire; Sothoised word

Indexed keywords

EID: 9944254851     PISSN: 16844904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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