n Lexikos - The lexicographic treatment of the demonstrative copulative in Sesotho sa Leboa - an exercise in multiple cross-referencing
Abstract
Tokelotlhaloo ya lealaupi-leba ka mo pukuntung ya Sesothosa Leboa - Tirio ka go upana go gont
Ka go sengwalwana se sa nyakiio,nyakiio yeo e tseneletego e laetwa ka ga go lokelwa le go hlalowa ga lealaupi-leba ka mopukuntung ya Sesotho sa Leboa. Thutwana ya mohuta wo ya nyakiio e oma bjalo ka mohlalago laeta seo se bitwago 'tokelo ya mantu ka lenaneo' (paradigmatic lemmatisation) ya mantu alegoro leo le tswaletwego ka go maleme a Afrika. Tlhokego ya nyakiio ya mohuta wo e tla kamorago ga theriano ya ditaeto ta gonabjale le teo di sego gona ka go tlhamopukuntu ya teoriya maleme a Afrika. Ditaba te di hlalowa ka go dikarolo 1 le 2. Tlhaloo ya teori ya lealaupilebaka go Sesotho sa Leboa e fiwa ka go karolo 3, mola karolo 4 e hlahloba tokelo le tlhaloo yalealaupi-leba ka go dipukuntu te nne teo di lego gona mo polelong ye. Dipoelo ta dikarolo 3le 4 di omiwa karolong ya 5, yeo e sekasekago mathata le dikgonego ta tokelotlhaloo yalealaupi-leba ka go dipukuntu ta polelopedi le ta polelotee. Dikarolo te pedi teo di latelagodi twela pele ka tekolo tiriong ya dikakanyeto ta thomio ya lealaupi-leba ka go PyaSsaL, elego Pukuntutlhaloi ya Sesotho sa Leboa. Karolo 6 e lebane le taodiwana ya pampiri mola karolo 7 elebane le taodiwana ya Inthanete. Ka go dira bjalo, pukuntu ya mathomothomo ya polelotee yamaleme a Afrika e tsebagatwa mo Inthaneteng. Mafelelong karolo 8 e fa kakareto ka bokopana.
In this research article an in-depth investigation is presented of the lexicographic treatment of the demonstrative copulative (DC) in Sesotho sa Leboa. This one case study serves as an example to illustrate the so-called 'paradigmatic lemmatisation' of closed-class words in the African languages. The need for such an approach follows a discussion, in Sections 1 and 2 respectively, of the present and missing directions in African-language metalexicography. A theoretical conspectus of the DC in Sesotho sa Leboa is then offered in Section 3, while Section 4 examines the treatment of the DC in the four existing desktop dictionaries for this language. The outcomes from the two latter sections are then used in Section 5, which analyses the problems of and options for a sound lexicographic treatment of the DC in bilingual and monolingual dictionaries. The next two sections proceed with a review of the practical implementation of the DC lemmatisation suggestions in PyaSsaL, i.e. the Pukuntutlhaloi ya Sesotho sa Leboa 'Explanatory Sesotho sa Leboa Dictionary' - with Section 6 focussing on the hardcopy and Section 7 on the online version. In the process, the very first fully monolingual African-language dictionary on the Internet is introduced. Section 8, finally, concludes briefly.
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