The Zulu locative prefix ku- revisited: a corpus-based approach
@article{Schryver2002TheZL, title={The Zulu locative prefix ku- revisited: a corpus-based approach}, author={Gilles-Maurice de Schryver and Rach{\'e}lle Gauton}, journal={Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies}, year={2002}, volume={20}, pages={201 - 220} }
This article re-examines the distribution of the class 17 locative prefix ku- and its variants kwi- and ko- in the locativisation of nouns in Zulu. To this end an electronic corpus of 5 million running Zulu words—the University of Pretoria Zulu Corpus (PZC)—is queried. We indicate how PZC can be used to highlight previously under-emphasised and overlooked aspects of a seemingly well-documented language feature such as the class 17 locative prefix ku-. Analysing the output proffered by PZC—an… CONTINUE READING
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