A Study of Hausa Syntax
Author : Charles H. Kraft
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Hausa language
ISBN :
Studies in Hausa
Author : Graham Furniss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 19,25 MB
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 131740615X
Book Description
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 probably the best studied African language, boasting an impressive list of research publications. As Nigeria grows in importance, so Hausa becomes a language of international standing. The volume brings together contributions from the major contemporary figures in Hausa language studies from around the world. It contains work on the linguistic description of Hausa, various aspects of Hausa literature, both oral and written, and on the description of the relationship of Hausa to other Chadic languages.
Studies in Hausa
Author : Graham Furniss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317406168
Book Description
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 probably the best studied African language, boasting an impressive list of research publications. As Nigeria grows in importance, so Hausa becomes a language of international standing. The volume brings together contributions from the major contemporary figures in Hausa language studies from around the world. It contains work on the linguistic description of Hausa, various aspects of Hausa literature, both oral and written, and on the description of the relationship of Hausa to other Chadic languages.
A Study of Hausa Syntax
Author : Charles H. Kraft
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Hausa language
ISBN :
Book Description
Research in Education
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Education
ISBN :
Book Description
National Defense Language Development Research and Studies
Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Hausa
Author : Philip J. Jaggar
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2001-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027283044
Book Description
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.
Aspects of the Morphology-syntax Interface in Four Nigerian Languages
Author : Gerald Heusing
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9783825839178
Book Description
This study seeks to blend the rigorous description of four Nigerian languages with theoretical insights. Four main tasks are involved. First, constructions involving the interface of morphology and syntax in the four languages are presented with regard to the syntax of substantives and functional categories, the morphology of functional heads and the relation between functional heads and the syntactic level of language. Secondly, these constructions are described and analysed within the framework of the Principles and Parameters Theory. Thirdly, those theoretical approaches within the Principles and Parameters Theory that can serve as tools for the analysis of the four languages are refined and modified, thereby establishing a version of the theory which may also serve for the morpho-syntactic analysis of related languages. Finally the syntactic model of functional categories is combined with a strictly morpho-semantic model of functional categories.
Completed Research, Studies and Instructional Materials for Language Development Under the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title VI, Section 602
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN :
Book Description
Cognitive Foundations of Grammar
Author : Bernd Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 1997-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195356209
Book Description
The main function of language is to convey meaning. Therefore, argues Bernd Heine in these pages, the question of why language is structured the way it is must first of all be answered with reference to this function. Linguistic explanations offered in terms of other exponents of language structure (for example, syntax) are likely to highlight peripheral or epi-phenomenal--rather than central--characteristics of language structure. Heine provides a solid introductory treatment of the ways in which language structure (that is, grammar) and language usage can be explained with reference to the processes underlying human conceptualization and communication. Exploring an area of linguistics that has developed only recently and is rapidly expanding, Cognitive Foundations of Grammar will appeal to students of linguistics, psychology, and anthropology, especially those interested in grammaticalization processess.
