Malami Buba
List of John Benjamins publications for which Malami Buba plays a role.
Articles
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
2008 Intensive plurality: Hausa pluractional verbs and degree semantics Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008, Koppen, Marjo van and Bert Botma (eds.), pp. 133–144 | Article