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From: "Thapelo Otlogetswe" <thaps at yahoo.com>
To: <lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Lexicog] Getting to know you


> I am a PhD student at the Information Technology
> Research Institute of the University of Brighton,
> England (started October 2003). My supervisors are
> Adam Kilgarriff and Roger Evans. My main interest is
> Corpus Representativeness and the general problem of
> corpus design. I tend to do research in the Setswana
> and English language. I am trying to find out how the
> design of the Setswana corpus could be influenced by
> the BNC and other corpora.
>
> I have a background in Linguistics. I did a BA in
> English Linguistics and Literature, followed by PGDE,
> both at the University of Botswana. I then went to
> read for an MPhil in General Linguistics at the
> University of Oxford.
>
> I am currently completing a dictionary of Setswana
> Personal Names (Setswana entries mapped by English
> glosses). The dictionary has around 9500 entries and I
> used Lingualinks to write it. Is there anyone working
> on a dictionary of names in this list?
>
> Cheers
> Thapelo
>
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> Thapelo Otlogetswe
> Information Technology Research Institute
> University of Brighton
> Lewes Road, Brighton
> BN2 4GJ, England
> Tel: (+44) 01273 642912 (office)
>       (+44) 01273 682529 (home)
> thapelo.otlogetswe at itri.brighton.ac.uk
>
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