Towards a Sound Lemmatisation Strategy for the Bantu Verb through the Use of Frequency-based Tail Slots - with special reference to Cilubà, Sepedi and Kiswahili.

"It is now right and proper to [...] make certain suggestions which could help future compilers of dictionaries of African languages, whoever they may be, to avoid some of the more obvious pitfalls. [...] there are no rules laid down for lexicographers, and whatever has been learnt by toil and sweat, by trial and error, is worth passing on. [...] One cardinal principle which emerges from our study is that everything which needs to be said about a stem or root should be channelled into one single full article, complete with citations if needed" (Benson 1964: 78, 80, 82)