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Project

A corpus-based study of the Lusoga grammar
Code
01W01610
Duration
16 November 2010 → 06 June 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
corpus-based Bantu Lusoga grammar Uganda African languages Contemporary Comparative Quantitative Surveys Language and text analysis Field research Bantu corpus linguistics Africa Linguistics
 
Project description
 

The grammar of Lusoga is being described scientiffically, which will server as a basis for the compilation of pedagogical grammars for the Ugandan education system. Rather than using staged communicative events or elicitation, all grammatical facts will be derived from an electronic corpus of naturally-occurring language. This methodology is a first for a language of limited diffusion.