Corpus-driven Bantu Lexicography Part 2: Lemmatisation and Rulers for Lusoga

Abstract

This article is the second in a trilogy that deals with corpus-driven Bantu lexicography, which is illustrated for Lusoga. The focus here is on the macrostructure and in particular on the building of a lemmatised frequency list directly within a dictionary-writing system. The programming code for the parts of the lemmatisation that may be automated is included as addenda. A second focus is on the embedded part-of-speech and alphabetical rulers, for which it is shown how these may be used to plan the actual compilation of the dictionary entries.

Keywords

• bantu
• lusoga
• corpus lexicography
• lemmatisation
• lemmatised frequency list
• part-of-speech ruler
• alphabetical ruler
• multidimensional lexicographic ruler
• dictionary planning
• dictionary-writing system
• tlex
• tshwanelex