1st Edition

Studies in Hausa Language and Linguistics

Edited By Graham Furniss, Philip J. Jaggar Copyright 1988
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1988, this book is a landmark in the study of one of the major African languages: Hausa. Hausa is spoken by 40-50 million people, mostly in northern Nigeria, but also in communities stretching from Senegal to the Red Sea. It is a language taught on an international basis at major universities in Nigeria, the USA, Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle and Far East, and is... Read more

Preface;  Introduction;  F. W. Parsons- A Biographical Sketch and List of Publications;  Contributors;  A Note on Transcription; Eaminees, Examiners and Examinations: The Hausa Language Requirements of the Northern Nigerian Government, 1901-62 A. H. M. Kirk-Greene  Part I: Language and Linguistics  1. The Vowels of Hausa J. Carnochan  2. Fonction de la diathèse dans le verb haoussa Claude Gouffé  3. Discourse-deployability and Indefinite NP-marking in Hausa: a Demonstration of the Universal ‘Categoriality Hypothesis’ Philip P. Jaggar  4. Hausa and Chadie- A Reappraisal Herrmann Jungraithmayr  5. A Nag-giong question in Hausa: Remarks on the Syntax and Semantics of the Plural Noun of Agent J. A. McIntyre  6. O Shush! An Exclamatory Construction in Hausa Paul Newman  7. Augmentative Adjectives in Hausa Roxana Ma Newman  8. On the Distribution of Consonants and Vowels in the Initial Syllable of Disyllabic Grade 2 Verbs in Hausa Nina Pilszczikowa-Chodak 9. Resumptive Strategies in Hausa Laurice Tuller  Part II: Language and Literature  9. Aƙilu Aliyu, Wordsmith: some Aspects of the Language of his Poetry D. W. Arnott  10. The Use of Linguistic Devices in Hausa Poetry Dauda Muhammad Bagari  11. The Language of Praise and Vilification: Two Poems by Muhammadu Audi of Gwandu about Abubakae, Emir of Nupe Graham Furniss  12. New Vocabulary and Idioms in Modern Hausa Literature Stanislaw Pilaszewicz  13. Préalable to a Theory of Hausa Poetic Meter Russell G. Schuh  14. Lexical Incompatibility as a Mark of ‘Karin Magana’ Neil Skinner  15. The Language of Hausa Riddles Ibrahim Yaro Yahaya  16. A Hausa Language and Linguistics Bibliography 1976-86, (including supplementary material for other years) Nicholas Awde;  Index

Biography

Graham Furniss, Philip J. Jaggar