Treatment of Spelling Variants in Setswana Monolingual Dictionaries

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Thapelo J. Otlogetswe¹ 

[1] Faculty of Humanities, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana

关键词: spelling variation;    dialect;    Setswana corpus;    multi-word expression;    borrowing;    history;    monolingual dictionary;    lemmatisation;    cross-referencing;    spellingvariasie;    dialek;    Setswana korpus;    meerwoordige uitdrukking;    ontlening;    geskiedenis;    eentalige woordeboek;    lemmatise;   

DOI  :  10.5788/25-1-1299

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Buro Van Die Woordeboek Van Die Afrikaanse Taal

【 摘 要 】

This paper argues that the Setswana language is characterised by spelling variants which are a consequence of multiple factors. It considers spelling variants found amongst individual words as well as those found in multi-word expressions (MWEs). It argue

【 授权许可】

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