The development of linguistic data, especially annotated corpora, is imperative for the human language technology enablement of any language. The annotation process is, however, often time-consuming and expensive. As such, ...

Drama translation is an area in the discipline of Translation Studies that has been neglected compared with the translation of other literary texts, especially in the South African context. This dissertation contributes ...

This dissertation is a historical biography of F.V. Engelenburg (1863-1938) and covers the period from 1889 to 1938, when Engelenburg lived and worked in South Africa. The study situates Engelenburg in the historical ...

In Afrikaans kom daar in sommige komplekse morfologiese konstruksies (fleksievorme, afleidings en komposita) ʼn valensiemorfeem voor. Voorbeelde van valensiemorfeme sluit in die ·s· in man·s·hemp en die ·e· in student·e·raad. ...

During an annotation project of 60 000 Afrikaans tokens by CTexT (North-West University), the developers had to answer difficult questions with regard to the annotation of the participle specifically. One of the main reasons ...

Languages are constantly changing and there are numerous reasons as to why languages change. One of these is contact-induced language change. It refers to the situation where languages synchronically influence one another ...

Humour is regarded as important in a variety of disciplines and when literature is studied, it becomes clear that humour is very important in the development of the individual. There are various ways in which the individual ...

Inchoativity is a well researched topic within typological literature but seldom discussed in Afrikaans publications. Although various publications outlining the function and usage of inchoatives have taken a typological ...

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Statistic machine translation to any of the resource scarce South African languages generally results in low quality output. Large amounts of training data are required to generate output of such a standard that it can ...