Hausa
Philip J. Jaggar
[London Oriental and African Language Library, 7] 2001. xxxiv, 754 pp.
Philip J. Jaggar
List of John Benjamins publications for which Philip J. Jaggar plays a role.
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Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Syntax
2009 Quantification and polarity: Negative Adverbial Intensifiers (‘never ever’, ‘not at all’, etc.) in Hausa Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond, Cyffer, Norbert, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), pp. 57–70 | Article
Hausa has a typologically interesting but poorly understood set of quantifying time and
degree adverbs – equivalent to English 'never ever', 'not at
all', etc. – which behave as negative polarity items and enhance the pragmatic
impact of a negative utterance (both verbal and non-verbal).… read more
2009 Metaphorical extensions of 'eat' --> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' --> [UNDERGO] in Hausa The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 229–251 | Article
The consumption verbs ci ‘eat’ and shaa ‘drink’ in Hausa are rich sources of metaphorical extensions into a variety of cognate semantic domains (Gouffé 1966; Williams 1991). Prototypical ci ‘eat’ metaphors encode overcoming/control of a patient or theme by an animate/human agent (and part… read more
2003 Ex-situ and in-situ focus in Hausa: Syntax, semantics and discourse Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000, Lecarme, Jacqueline (ed.), pp. 187–214 | Article
1988 Affected subject (‘grade 7’) verbs in Hausa: what are they and where do they come from? Passive and Voice, Shibatani, Masayoshi (ed.), pp. 387–416 | Article
1983 Some dimensions of topic-NP continuity in Hausa narrative Topic Continuity in Discourse: A quantitative cross-language study, Givón, T., pp. 365–424 | Article