Lexicography : notes on Xhosa lore and language (1909-1934) /
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| Author / Creator: | Godfrey, Robert, Reverend, author. |
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| Imprint: | Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2019. ©2019 |
| Description: | xxxv, 356 pages : portrait ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Publications of the Opland Collection of Xhosa literature ; volume 7 Publications of the Opland Collection of Xhosa literature ; v. 7. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11934894 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Preparatory to "Lexicography"
- Lore
- Prefatory note
- Bird names and bird lore
- Children's games
- Riddles
- Proverbs
- Taboos
- Language
- Historical sketch of Xosa lexicography
- Notes on vocabulary: additions to the Dictionary
- Hlonipa words
- Flora and fauna
- The year
- Place names
- John Bennie
- Grammar
- Reviews and reminiscences
- The Phonetics of the Zulu Language by Clement M. Doke, M.A., D.Litt.
- The late Rev. H.N. Bonar
- Reminiscences of Blythswood
- Bantu Studies for March
- Appendices
- Albert Kropf, "Preface to A Kaffir-English Dictionary" (1899)
- Robert Godfrey, "Preface to the Second Edition" (1915)
- W.G.B[ennie], "The revision of Kropf's Kafir Dictionary" (1916)
- J.L., "A Kafir-English Dictionary, by Rev. Albert Kropf, D.D. Second Edition by Rev. Robert Godfrey, M.A. Lovedale Mission Press, pp. xxxii. and 525" (1916)
- Bibliography
- Index
