22.2452, Books: Lexicography/Text/Corpus Linguistics: Otlogetswe

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Date: 09-Jun-2011
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Text Variability Measures in Corpus Design for Setswana
Lexicography: Otlogetswe

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Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:09:22
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: Text Variability Measures in Corpus Design for Setswana Lexicography: Otlogetswe

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Title: Text Variability Measures in Corpus Design for Setswana
Lexicography 
Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.c-s-p.org

Author: Thapelo Joseph Otlogetswe

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443826372 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 44.99

Abstract:

This book is about the design of a Setswana corpus for lexicography. While 
various corpora have been compiled and a variety of corpora-based research 
has been attempted in African languages, no effort has been made towards 
corpus design. Additionally, although extensive analysis of the Setswana 
language has been done by missionaries, grammarians and linguists since 
the 1800s, none of this research is in corpus design. Most research has been 
largely on the grammatical study of the language. The recent corpora 
research in African languages in general has been on the use of corpora for 
the compilation of dictionaries and little of it is in corpus design. Pioneers of 
this kind of corpora research in African languages are Prinsloo and De 
Schryver (1999), De Schryver and Prisloo (2000 and 2001) and Gouws and 
Prisloo (2005). Because of a lack of research in corpora design particularly in 
African languages, this book attempts to fill that gap, especially for 
Setswana. It is hoped that the finding of this study will inspire similar designs 
in other languages comparable to Setswana. We explore corpus design by 
focusing on measuring a variety of text types for lexical richness at 
comparable token points. The study explores the question of whether a 
corpus compiled for lexicography must comprise a variety of texts drawn 
from different text types or whether the quality of retrieved information for 
lexicographic purposes from a corpus comprising diverse text varieties could 
be equally extracted from a corpus with a single text type. This study 
therefore determines whether linguistic variability is crucial in corpus design 
for lexicography. 

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Tswana (tsn)

Written In: English  (eng)

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