Vol. 24 No. 2 (2015): Nordic Journal of African Studies
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Implementation of a Part-of-Speech Ontology: Morphemic Units of Bantu languages

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  • Elsabé Taljard,
  • Gertrud Faaß,
  • Sonja Bosch
Elsabé Taljard
University of Pretoria
Gertrud Faaß
University of South Africa
Sonja Bosch
University of South Africa
Nordic Journal of African Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v24i2.129

Published 2015-06-30

How to Cite

Taljard, E., Faaß, G., & Bosch, S. (2015). Implementation of a Part-of-Speech Ontology: Morphemic Units of Bantu languages. Nordic Journal of African Studies, 24(2), 23. https://doi.org/10.53228/njas.v24i2.129

Abstract

In a previous article (Faaß et al., 2012), a first attempt was made at documenting and encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languages, i.e. Northern Sotho and Zulu, with the aim of describing and storing the morphemic units of these two languages in a single relational database, structured as a hierarchical ontology. As a follow-up, the current article describes the implementation of our part-of-speech ontology. We give a detailed description of the morphemes and categories contained in the database, highlighting the need and reasons for a flexible ontology which will provide for both language specific and general linguistic information. By giving a detailed account of the methodology for the population of the database, we provide linguists from other Bantu languages with a road map for extending the database to also include their languages of specialization.

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