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    • Moods and tenses in Xitsonga 

      Du Plessis, Jacobus A. (2014)
      The aim of this article is firstly to give an overview of the forms and meanings of the various moods and tenses in Xitsonga, but then to primarily focus on the Dependent mood and its very wide distribution to see in what ...

    • The interrogative in the S.A. Bantu languages 

      Du Plessis, Jacobus A. (2014)
      The article will give an overview of questions in the S.A. Bantu languages with specific attention to the syntax and semantics of these sentence, i.e. the structure and meaning of interrogative clauses. For this purpose ...

    • A general lexicographic model for a typological variety of dictionaries in African languages 

      Faass, Gertrud; Bosch, Sonia E.; Gouws, Rufus H. (Bureau of the WAT, 2014)
      So far, there have been few descriptions on creating structures capable of storing lexicographic data, ISO 24613:2008 being one of the latest. Another one is by Spohr (2012), who designs a multifunctional lexical resource ...

    • The deficient verb [ba] in isiXhosa 

      Du Plessis, Jacobus A. (2014)
      The aim of this article is to establish how factivity clauses such as [ba-lamb-ile] (they are hungry) may appear in clauses which express certainty or consecutive in isiXhosa. For this purpose the influence of the deficient ...