Specialised and general Sepedi corpus

The study investigated the syntactic and semantic features of six selected Sepedi conjunctions as observed between Specialised Sepedi corpus and General Sepedi corpus. Furthermore, the study sought to determine whether there are similarities and differences in the usage and meaning of Sepedi conjunctions between scholarly sources and the corpora. The study employed corpus-based approach for data analysis and interpretation, and a corpus-query software called ‘LancsBox X’ was used for querying the corpora. This study was grounded in Noam Chomsky's seminal work on generative grammar. Generative grammar is conceived as a structured system of statements and rules aimed at describing and defining grammatically correct utterances within a language, while excluding those that are not well-formed.