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Publication details [#49349]

Poulos, George and Rusandré Hendrikse. 2006. Tagging an agglutinating language: A new look at word categories in the southern African indigenous languages. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 37 (2) : 246–266.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

categorization | tag | word

Language as a subject

Languages, South African, Indigenous

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper proposes a new, non-European based, rather revolutionary framework for dealing with word categorisation in African languages, and in particular in southern African indigenous languages. This new framework significantly affects the units that have to be distinguished in a tagset, and the tagging of corpora in these African languages.