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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

GhentCDH - Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities

Afrikaans - Ghent Centre for Afrikaans and the Study of South Afrika

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

Kikongo

Cilubà

Zulu

Xhosa

Northern Sotho

Luganda

Lusoga

Kirundi

Swahili

Corpus Linguistics

Lexicography

Bantu

Tabgroup

About

Dr Gilles-Maurice de Schryver is a research professor of African linguistics in the department of languages and cultures at Ghent University, and an extraordinary professor in the department of African languages at the University of Pretoria.
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.
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver is the author or co-author of over 300 books, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers.
He is a past board member and two-term past President of Afrilex (2001-2013), and served on the boards of Euralex (2006-2014), Asialex (2007-2013) and Australex (2008-2013). From 2006 to 2012 he also held an extraordinary professorship at the University of the Western Cape.

Projects

Projects as supervisor

Theoretical underpinnings for a user-friendly, corpus-driven, semi-bilingual, digital dictionary of Swahili (2018 - 2022)

Projects as co-supervisor

Tense and aspect in Kikongo. A descriptive, comparative and diachronic approach to form and function (2014 - 2018)
A diachronic and spatial analytical approach to linguistic micro-variation in the Kikongo dialect continuum (2014 - 2018)
A corpus-driven study of the expression of modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15) (2013 - 2017)
The interface between information structure, syntax and prosody in Kikongo. An integrated descriptive, comparative and diachronic approach (2012 - 2017)
A corpus-based grammar of Lusoga (2010 - 2016)
The expression of modality in Kirundi. A corpus-based approach (2009 - 2014)

Projects as researcher

BantuFirst (2018 - 2022)
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

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