Shaka, the King of Zulu

King Shaka, the Diviners and Colonialism

The often-told tale of Zulu King Shaka and his diviners may tell us more about colonial religion and politics in the nineteenth century than it does about Zulu religion and politics. The tale unfolds in various nineteenth-century books, popular and contemporary histories, and in oral traditions. Writers have frequently portrayed it as a key point in King Shaka’s leadership, most especially E A ...

From ZULU to RERS - Lessons Learned in the ZULU Challenge

This paper summarizes our experience with the ZULU challenge on active learning without equivalence queries, presents our winning solution, investigates the character of ZULU’s rating approach, and discusses how this approach can be taken further to establish a framework for the systematic investigation of domain-specific, scalable learning solutions for practically relevant application. In par...

Zulu: An Interactive Learning Competition

Active language learning is an interesting task for which theoretical results are known and several applications exist. In order to better understand what the better strategies may be, a new competition called Zulu (http://labh-curien.univ-st-etienne.fr/zulu/) is launched: participants are invited to learn deterministic finite automata from membership queries. The goal is to obtain the best cla...

Language Impairment in Zulu

Left dislocation in Zulu

This paper examines left dislocation constructions in Zulu, a Southern Bantu language belonging to the Nguni group (Zone S 40). In Zulu left dislocation configurations, a topic phrase in the beginning of the sentence is linked to a resumptive element within the associated clause. Typically, the resumptive element is an incorporated pronoun (cf. Bresnan & Mchombo 1987), as illustrated by the exa...