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Towards a part-of-speech ontology: encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languages

  • This article describes the design of an electronic knowledge base, namely a morpho-syntactic database structured as an ontology of linguistic categories, containing linguistic units of two related languages of the South African Bantu group: Northern Sotho and Zulu. These languages differ significantly in their surface orthographies, but are very similar on the lexical and sub-lexical levels. It is therefore our goal to describe the morphemes of these languages in a single common database in order to outline and interpret commonalities and differences in more detail. Moreover, the relational database which is developed defines the underlying morphemic units (morphs) for both languages. It will be shown that the electronic part-of-speech ontology goes hand in hand with part-of-speech tagsets that label morphemic units. This database is designed as part of a forthcoming system providing lexicographic and linguistic knowledge on the official South African Bantu languages.

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Author:Gertrud FaaßORCiD, Sonja Bosch, Elsabé TaljardORCiD
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-119227
DOI:https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v21i3.172
ISSN:1459-9465
Parent Title (English):Nordic Journal of African Studies
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2012
Date of Publication (online):2023/06/07
Publishing Institution:Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS)
Publicationstate:Veröffentlichungsversion
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
Tag:Northern Sotho; Zulu; morpho-syntactic database; part-of-speech ontology; tagging
GND Keyword:Bantusprachen; Datenbank; Morphem; Morphologie <Linguistik>; Ontologie <Wissensverarbeitung>; Pedi-Sprache; Zulu-Sprache
Volume:21
Issue:3
First Page:118
Last Page:140
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
Linguistics-Classification:Computerlinguistik
Linguistics-Classification:Morphologie
Licence (English):License LogoCreative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International