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Cognate objects of weather verbs in African languages of South Africa –from synchronic variation to a grammaticalization path

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017
The authors argue that the synchronic variation of cognate objects of weather verbs exhibited in six African languages of South Africa (Sepedi, Sesotho, Tshivenda, isiXhosa, Xitsonga, and isiZulu) has a diachronic explanation, and may be represented as a
Andrason, Alexander, Visser, Marianna W.
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Mutualism Despite Ostensible Difference: HuShamwari, Kuhanyisana, and Conviviality Between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa

Africa Spectrum, 2020
This ethnographic study explores forms of mutuality and conviviality between Shona migrants from Zimbabwe and Tsonga-speaking South Africans living in Giyani, South Africa.
Tamuka Chekero, Shannon Morreira
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The semantics of expressive interjections in Xitsonga

Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
This study explores the world of expressive interjections and their nuanced meanings in Xitsonga. Expressive interjections are essential linguistic components for emotive and informative communication, enabling the conveyance of affective states, and are integral to human expression.
Respect Mlambo, Madala Crous Hlungwani
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Evaluating the effectiveness of Xitsonga named entity recognition

Cogent Arts & Humanities
The development of robust Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems for African languages such as Xitsonga remains constrained by limited data availability, complex morphological structures, and orthographic variation.
Kulani Excellent Mhlongo, Respect Mlambo
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An overview of Xitsonga reduplication constructions

South African Journal of African Languages
Word-formation processes leading to abbreviations such as clipping, blending and acronyms occur only partially, or do not occur at all, in Xitsonga. In constrast, one of the most productive word-formation processes in Xitsonga is reduplication. Several studies have been conducted in various languages on reduplication.
Lebogang Steven Shirindzi, Arnold Mushwana   +1 more
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Probing Proverbial Propositions in Xitsonga Discourse in Vutlhari bya Vatsonga Machangana and Tinhlungu ta Rixaka Dictionary.

Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture
Vatsonga largely rely on proverbial expressions and other forms of figurative language in their daily discourse to convey various messages and lessons.
Ndzalama Maluleke
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Deverbal nominals in Xitsonga [PDF]

, 2012
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study investigates the nature of Xitsonga deverbatives that are derived from three types of syntactic verbs, namely intransitive verbs, monotranstive verbs and ditransitive verbs .The ...
Hlungwani, Madala Crous
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Aspect of naming in XiTsonga [PDF]

, 2005
Thesis (Ph.D.
Chauke, Mkhacani Thomas
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NCHLT Xitsonga word2vec-Skipgram embeddings

, 2023
Static word embeddings for the Skipgram flavour of the word2vec (w2v) architecture (Mikolov et al., 2013).
Roald Eiselen
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Autshumato Xitsonga Frequency Word List

, 2014
A list of the most frequent Xitsonga words as deliverable of the Autshumato ...
Wikus Pienaar, Wildrich Fourie, Cindy McKellar   +2 more
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