London Oriental and African Language Library, 2001
Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in nort... more Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in northern Nigeria and southern parts of Niger, in addition to diaspora communities of traders, Muslim scholars and immigrants in urban areas of West Africa, e.g. southern Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and the Blue Nile province of the Sudan. It is also widely spoken as a second language and has expanded rapidly as a lingua franca. Hausa is a member of the Chadic language family which, together with Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic, Berber and Ancient Egyptian, is a coordinate branch of the Afroasiatic phylum. This comprehensive reference grammar consists of sixteen chapters which together provide a detailed and up-to-date description of the core structural properties of the language in theory-neutral terms, thus guaranteeing its on-going accessibility to researchers in linguistic typology and universals
This thesis examines the factors involved in the expansion, during the colonial and post-colonial... more This thesis examines the factors involved in the expansion, during the colonial and post-colonial periods, of a traditional, i.e. pre-European craft specialism - blacksmithing, in Kano City, Nigeria - and its subsequent conversion into a modem metal-working industry. In doing so, it sheds new light on the general proposition that such traditional crafts necessarily decline before the technological onslaught of colonialism. A notable feature of the recent development of this craft has been the differential responses of the various clusters of blacksmiths to the new socio-economic factors introduced by the British. Of these groups, the most far-reaching changes have occurred in that located within the Central Market area of Kano City, and it is the behaviour of these craftsmen - and/or trader-entrepreneurs which provides the focus of this study. These dynamic individuals effected major advances in the manufacture and marketing of ironwares, and transformed the nature of the industry h...
The morphological-to-analytic causative continuum in Hausa:
Over the last few decades, linguists have devoted considerable attention to both homogeneity and ... more Over the last few decades, linguists have devoted considerable attention to both homogeneity and variation in the expression of causal events across languages. However, most studies, whether typological or language-specific, have focussed on morphologically overt ('lie/lay X down') causatives, to the relative neglect of complex periphrastic ('get X to lie down') formations. The present paper addresses this imbalance by elucidating a wide spectrum of causative expressions in Hausa (Chadic/Afroasiatic), systematically exploring, for the first time in an African language¬, the key design-features that distinguish the two mechanisms. Hausa periphrastic causatives can also differ from each other, e.g., in implicational strength, depending on the modal (TAM) properties of the lower clause. Following contemporary approaches located within a general typology of the domain, we invoke the widely-accepted dichotomy between DIRECT and INDIRECT causative constructions, and provide a rare demonstration of how the two types are used to describe pragmatically different causal events and participant roles.
... ISBN: 9780500514115. ID Code: 5574. Deposited By: Friederike Luepke. Deposited On: 09 Oct 200... more ... ISBN: 9780500514115. ID Code: 5574. Deposited By: Friederike Luepke. Deposited On: 09 Oct 2008 16:19. Last Modified: 09 Oct 2008 16:20. Statistics. Item downloaded times since 09 Oct 2008 16:19. View statistics for "North and West African languages". ...
... Roy Clive Abraham (1890-1963). Jaggar, Philip J. (2004) 'Roy Clive Abraham (1890-1963).&... more ... Roy Clive Abraham (1890-1963). Jaggar, Philip J. (2004) 'Roy Clive Abraham (1890-1963).' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . pp. 120-121. Full text not available from this repository. Item Type: Article. Authors/Creators: Jaggar, Philip J. Editors: Matthew, C. ...
Cross-linguistically, performative constructions are associated with a range of declarative direc... more Cross-linguistically, performative constructions are associated with a range of declarative direct speech acts with different illocutionary forces or meanings, e.g., promising, ordering, asserting, etc. In an utterance such as 'I promise to give the money back' the matrix verb 'promise' is used as a performative - it has the illocutionary force of a promise but pragmatically it also has an effect on the performance of the act it describes. Hausa performative verbs/constructions have been largely neglected in the literature, and in this paper I open up the subject by identifying: (1) the finite and nonfinite complement clauses and subordinators which are licensed by stereotypical performative verbs; (2) the TAMS's (tense/aspect/mood) they typically occur with as matrix verbs, and the TAM's they govern in the embedded clause.
L'A. examine la distribution et l'interpretation des reflechis internes a la phrase en ha... more L'A. examine la distribution et l'interpretation des reflechis internes a la phrase en haoussa, dans divers types de propositions. Apres un apercu des descriptions anterieures de ce domaine anaphorique sous-defini, il identifie deux categories fonctionnelles d'expressions reflechies, a savoir basiques et emphatiques, dont il recense les differentes proprietes. L'existence de ces deux categories semblant coherente d'apres les donnees analysees, elles permettraient parallelement d'expliquer les phenomenes d'ordre des mots et d'insertion de preposition en haoussa, ainsi que leurs correlats temps/aspect. Il evalue de plus brievement les caracteristiques structurales de ces reflechis comme n'etant pas conformes a la theorie du liage anaphorique de la grammaire universelle chomskyenne.
... FUT do stench 'the meat will (probably) stink' ■ Frame: NP-poss suffix + ANSQ NP [±... more ... FUT do stench 'the meat will (probably) stink' ■ Frame: NP-poss suffix + ANSQ NP [± poss linker] + ANSQ (9) taa shaa ruwa-n ... also had a strikingly similar form-meaning equivalent in Guruntum, where affected-subjects verbs display a near-isomorphic shape - Hi-Hi tones with ...
London Oriental and African Language Library, 2001
Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in nort... more Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in northern Nigeria and southern parts of Niger, in addition to diaspora communities of traders, Muslim scholars and immigrants in urban areas of West Africa, e.g. southern Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and the Blue Nile province of the Sudan. It is also widely spoken as a second language and has expanded rapidly as a lingua franca. Hausa is a member of the Chadic language family which, together with Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic, Berber and Ancient Egyptian, is a coordinate branch of the Afroasiatic phylum. This comprehensive reference grammar consists of sixteen chapters which together provide a detailed and up-to-date description of the core structural properties of the language in theory-neutral terms, thus guaranteeing its on-going accessibility to researchers in linguistic typology and universals
This thesis examines the factors involved in the expansion, during the colonial and post-colonial... more This thesis examines the factors involved in the expansion, during the colonial and post-colonial periods, of a traditional, i.e. pre-European craft specialism - blacksmithing, in Kano City, Nigeria - and its subsequent conversion into a modem metal-working industry. In doing so, it sheds new light on the general proposition that such traditional crafts necessarily decline before the technological onslaught of colonialism. A notable feature of the recent development of this craft has been the differential responses of the various clusters of blacksmiths to the new socio-economic factors introduced by the British. Of these groups, the most far-reaching changes have occurred in that located within the Central Market area of Kano City, and it is the behaviour of these craftsmen - and/or trader-entrepreneurs which provides the focus of this study. These dynamic individuals effected major advances in the manufacture and marketing of ironwares, and transformed the nature of the industry h...
The morphological-to-analytic causative continuum in Hausa:
Over the last few decades, linguists have devoted considerable attention to both homogeneity and ... more Over the last few decades, linguists have devoted considerable attention to both homogeneity and variation in the expression of causal events across languages. However, most studies, whether typological or language-specific, have focussed on morphologically overt ('lie/lay X down') causatives, to the relative neglect of complex periphrastic ('get X to lie down') formations. The present paper addresses this imbalance by elucidating a wide spectrum of causative expressions in Hausa (Chadic/Afroasiatic), systematically exploring, for the first time in an African language¬, the key design-features that distinguish the two mechanisms. Hausa periphrastic causatives can also differ from each other, e.g., in implicational strength, depending on the modal (TAM) properties of the lower clause. Following contemporary approaches located within a general typology of the domain, we invoke the widely-accepted dichotomy between DIRECT and INDIRECT causative constructions, and provide a rare demonstration of how the two types are used to describe pragmatically different causal events and participant roles.
... ISBN: 9780500514115. ID Code: 5574. Deposited By: Friederike Luepke. Deposited On: 09 Oct 200... more ... ISBN: 9780500514115. ID Code: 5574. Deposited By: Friederike Luepke. Deposited On: 09 Oct 2008 16:19. Last Modified: 09 Oct 2008 16:20. Statistics. Item downloaded times since 09 Oct 2008 16:19. View statistics for "North and West African languages". ...
... Roy Clive Abraham (1890-1963). Jaggar, Philip J. (2004) 'Roy Clive Abraham (1890-1963).&... more ... Roy Clive Abraham (1890-1963). Jaggar, Philip J. (2004) 'Roy Clive Abraham (1890-1963).' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . pp. 120-121. Full text not available from this repository. Item Type: Article. Authors/Creators: Jaggar, Philip J. Editors: Matthew, C. ...
Cross-linguistically, performative constructions are associated with a range of declarative direc... more Cross-linguistically, performative constructions are associated with a range of declarative direct speech acts with different illocutionary forces or meanings, e.g., promising, ordering, asserting, etc. In an utterance such as 'I promise to give the money back' the matrix verb 'promise' is used as a performative - it has the illocutionary force of a promise but pragmatically it also has an effect on the performance of the act it describes. Hausa performative verbs/constructions have been largely neglected in the literature, and in this paper I open up the subject by identifying: (1) the finite and nonfinite complement clauses and subordinators which are licensed by stereotypical performative verbs; (2) the TAMS's (tense/aspect/mood) they typically occur with as matrix verbs, and the TAM's they govern in the embedded clause.
L'A. examine la distribution et l'interpretation des reflechis internes a la phrase en ha... more L'A. examine la distribution et l'interpretation des reflechis internes a la phrase en haoussa, dans divers types de propositions. Apres un apercu des descriptions anterieures de ce domaine anaphorique sous-defini, il identifie deux categories fonctionnelles d'expressions reflechies, a savoir basiques et emphatiques, dont il recense les differentes proprietes. L'existence de ces deux categories semblant coherente d'apres les donnees analysees, elles permettraient parallelement d'expliquer les phenomenes d'ordre des mots et d'insertion de preposition en haoussa, ainsi que leurs correlats temps/aspect. Il evalue de plus brievement les caracteristiques structurales de ces reflechis comme n'etant pas conformes a la theorie du liage anaphorique de la grammaire universelle chomskyenne.
... FUT do stench 'the meat will (probably) stink' ■ Frame: NP-poss suffix + ANSQ NP [±... more ... FUT do stench 'the meat will (probably) stink' ■ Frame: NP-poss suffix + ANSQ NP [± poss linker] + ANSQ (9) taa shaa ruwa-n ... also had a strikingly similar form-meaning equivalent in Guruntum, where affected-subjects verbs display a near-isomorphic shape - Hi-Hi tones with ...
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