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Prof. Dr. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

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gillesmaurice.deschryver@ugent.be

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Department

Department of Languages and Cultures

Research group(s)

BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies

Other institution(s)

Department of African Languages - University of Pretoria

Research Focus

Language technology

Research Period

Research Region

Research Language

African languages

Research Methodology

Geographic and map based

Language and text analysis

Additional tags

Bantu

Cilubà

Corpus linguistics

Kikongo

Kirundi

Lexicography

Luganda

Lusoga

Northern Sotho

Swahili

Xhosa

Zulu

Tabgroup

About

Dr Gilles-Maurice de Schryver is a research professor of African linguistics in the department of languages and cultures at Ghent University. He is also an extraordinary professor in the department of African languages at the University of Pretoria, a job title he formerly held at the University of the Western Cape (2006-2012).
He holds an MSc in microelectronic engineering (1995), as well as an MA (1999) and PhD (2005) in African languages and cultures. In 2002 he co-founded TshwaneDJe HLT, and in 2006 he was a founding member of African Language Technology.
He is the author or co-author of close to 400 books, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers.
He is a two-term past President of Afrilex (2009-2013) and a past President of Euralex (2018-2021). Earlier, he also served in other capacities on the executive boards of Afrilex (2001-2009), Euralex (2006-2014), Asialex (2007-2013) and Australex (2008-2013). Most recently, he has been co-facilitating the creation of Americalex (2021-2023), and currently sits on the board of Globalex (2022-2023).

Projects

Projects as supervisor

Specialized digital frame-based lexicography from the perspective of dictionary use research (2019 - 2022)
Theoretical underpinnings for a user-friendly, corpus-driven, semi-bilingual, digital dictionary of Swahili (2018 - 2020)
Duplication processes in Lusoga morphosyntax (2018 - 2022)

Projects as co-supervisor

Projects as researcher

Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar (2018 - 2018)
KongoKing (2012 - 2016)

Publications

Key publications

Lexicographers' dreams in the electronic-dictionary age(2003)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Trends in twenty-five years of academic lexicography(2012)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
The concept of simultaneous feedback(2013)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Why opting for a dedicated, professional, off-the-shelf dictionary writing system matters(2011)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Oxford bilingual school dictionary: Zulu and English(2010)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Revolutionizing bantu lexicography: a Zulu case study(2010)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
The Zulu locative prefix ku- revisited: a corpus-based approach(2002)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- R Gauton
Locative trigrams in Northern Sotho, preceded by analyses of formative bigrams(2006)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- E TALJARD
Do dictionaries define on the level of their target users? A case study for three Dutch dictionaries(2011)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- DJ Prinsloo
Concurrent over- and under-treatment in dictionaries - The 'Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal' as a case in point(2005)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
Do dictionary users really look up frequent words? On the overestimation of the value of corpus-based lexicography(2006)
- Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
- D Joffe
- P Joffe
- S Hillewaert

Most recent publications

Full bibliography

Teaching

Services

Secretary: Examination Board for African Languages and Cultures (BA)

Secretary: Examination Board for African Studies (MA)
First point of contact: Research project applications for Languages & Cultures (PhD, Post-doc)
Member: Library Commission of the Faculty of Arts
Member: Scientific Research Committee of the Faculty of Arts
Member: Scientific Committee for the Humanities and Social and Economic Sciences ('alpha' working group) of the Research Council of Ghent University