Philip J. Jaggar

List of John Benjamins publications for which Philip J. Jaggar plays a role.

Title

Hausa

Philip J. Jaggar

Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Syntax

Articles

Jaggar, Philip J. 2009 Quantification and polarity: Negative Adverbial Intensifiers (‘never ever’, ‘not at all’, etc.) in HausaNegation 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
Jaggar, Philip J. and Malami Buba 2009 Metaphorical extensions of 'eat' --> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' --> [UNDERGO] in HausaThe 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
Jaggar, Philip J. 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 ff. | Article