Studies in Hausa : Language and Linguistics.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Furniss, Graham
Other Authors: Jaggar, Philip J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; F.W. Parsons-A Biographical Sketch and List of Publications; Contributors; A Note on Transcription; Examinees, Examiners and Examinations: The Hausa Language Requirements of the Northern Nigerian Government, 1902-62; PART I: LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS; The Vowels of Hausa; Fonction de la diathèse dans le verbe haoussa; Discourse-deployability and Indefinite NP-marking in Hausa: a Demonstration of the Universal 'Categoriality Hypothesis'
  • Hausa and Chadic-A ReappraisalA NAg-ging Question in Hausa: Remarks on the Syntax and Semantics of the Plural Noun of Agent; O Shush! An Exclamatory Construction in Hausa; Augmentative Adjectives in Hausa; On the Distribution of Consonants and Vowels in the Initial Syllable of Disyllabic Grade 2 Verbs in Hausa; Resumptive Strategies in Hausa; PART II: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE; Akilu Aliyu, Wordsmith: Some Aspects of the Language of his Poetry; The Use of Linguistic Devices in Hausa Poetry.
  • The Language of Praise and Vilification: Two Poems by Muhammadu Audi of Gwandu about Abubakar, Emir of NupeNew Vocabulary and Idioms in Modern Hausa Literature; Préalable to a Theory of Hausa Poetic Meter; Lexical Incompatibility as a Mark of Karin Magana; The Language of Hausa Riddles; A Hausa Language and Linguistics Bibliography 1976-86, (including supplementary material for other years); Index.