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===Creation of the TypeCraft Ruynankore Rukiga corpus===
 
===Creation of the TypeCraft Ruynankore Rukiga corpus===
The TypeCraft  Ruynankore Rukiga corpusis based on data which consists of naturally occurring data, narratives and short stories, as well as elicitated data. Texts are either transcriptions of oral narratives or fragments of newspaper texts from the Runyankore-Rukiga weekly newspaper Orumuri. We also digitalised sections taken from the novel Abagyenda Bareeba ‘Adventures of travelers' by Mubangizi (1997). The data was created by native speaker graduates as class work or as part of their  master’s thesis. The collection has been extended by the authors continuously. At the time of writing our open end  Runyankore Rukiga corpus contains 126 texts  consisting of  XX 000 sentences.
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The TypeCraft  Ruynankore Rukiga corpus is based on data which consists of narratives and short stories, as well as elicitated data. Texts are either transcriptions of oral narratives or fragments of newspaper texts from the Runyankore-Rukiga weekly newspaper Orumuri. We also digitalised sections taken from the novel Abagyenda Bareeba ‘Adventures of travelers' by Mubangizi (1997). (REF)
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The data was created by native-speaker graduates as part of their class work or in the context of their  master’s thesis between 20xx and 20xx. The creation process was a highly collaborative effort coordinated by the principal investigators Dr. Allen Asiimwe (Makerere University, Uganda) and Prof. Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Trondheim) . The main student contributer were Justus ...., ......., .........,. The collection has been extended continuously. For a closer look at the corpus ............

Revision as of 10:30, 5 January 2019

Purpose of the corpus

The Corpus of Locative Expressions in Runyankore Rukiga was created to allow the study of Locative Expression in Runyankore Rukiga a Bantu Languages spoken in south-western Uganda by ... . .....

Description of the corpus

This corpus is a sub-corpus of the TypeCraft Runyankore Rukiga corpus -- packaged -- time stamped --- It consists of naturally occurring data, narratives and short stories, as well as elicitated data which we found relevant for our study of locative expressions in this language. The corpus package consist of ..... interlinear glosses sentences.

Creation of the TypeCraft Ruynankore Rukiga corpus

The TypeCraft Ruynankore Rukiga corpus is based on data which consists of narratives and short stories, as well as elicitated data. Texts are either transcriptions of oral narratives or fragments of newspaper texts from the Runyankore-Rukiga weekly newspaper Orumuri. We also digitalised sections taken from the novel Abagyenda Bareeba ‘Adventures of travelers' by Mubangizi (1997). (REF) The data was created by native-speaker graduates as part of their class work or in the context of their master’s thesis between 20xx and 20xx. The creation process was a highly collaborative effort coordinated by the principal investigators Dr. Allen Asiimwe (Makerere University, Uganda) and Prof. Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Trondheim) . The main student contributer were Justus ...., ......., .........,. The collection has been extended continuously. For a closer look at the corpus ............