TY - JOUR U1 - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel A1 - Faaß, Gertrud A1 - Prinsloo, D. J. T1 - A computational implementation of the Northern Sotho infinitive JF - South African Journal of African Languages N2 - The aim of this article is to describe the infinitive in Northern Sotho based on corpus data and the respective literature; so far, all share the same view: The infinitive is a noun (of class 15) and a verb at the same time—‘it manifests both nominal as well as verbal features’ (Poulos & Louwrens, 1994:42). When implementing these constellations in a parser, however, a new perspective is found: to achieve its successful implementation, the infinitive must be defined as a verb on the one hand and as a noun of class 15 on the other, derived from this verb through nominalization (transposition). Instead of a subject concord, the verb stem in the infinitive is preceded by the respective class prefix. KW - Pedi-Sprache KW - Infinitiv KW - Korpus KW - Substantiv KW - Verb KW - Nominalisierung KW - Grammatik Y1 - 2011 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-120839 SN - 2305-1159 SS - 2305-1159 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2011.10587371 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2011.10587371 N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in "South African Journal of African Languages" online on 26 Oct 2012, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2011.10587371 VL - 31 IS - 2 SP - 281 EP - 301 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London ER -