Anthony Traill (edited by Hirosi Nakagawa and Andy Chebanne), A trilingual !Xóõ dictionary: !Xóõ – English – Setswana

At a summer school for language description and documentation at the Leiden University in 2010, I placed a bid in a silent auction for Anthony Traill’s (1994) A !Xóõ dictionary only to be outbid by the field phonetics instructor. Taking pity on the then still post-graduate about to embark on an adv...

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Päätekijä: Pratchett, Lee J.
Aineistotyyppi: Article ou chapitre numérique
Kieli:Anglais
Julkaistu: Linguistique et Langues Africaines 2022
Linkit:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Yhteenveto:At a summer school for language description and documentation at the Leiden University in 2010, I placed a bid in a silent auction for Anthony Traill’s (1994) A !Xóõ dictionary only to be outbid by the field phonetics instructor. Taking pity on the then still post-graduate about to embark on an adventure in “Khoisan” languages, the instructor withdrew his bid and I became the happy owner of a fine lexicographic work on one of the world’s phonologically most complex languages. Well-thumbed an...