21.3332, Books: Language Documentation: Robinson

[linguist at LINGUISTLIST.ORG]

LINGUIST List: Vol-21-3332. Wed Aug 18 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 21.3332, Books: Language Documentation: Robinson

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>
 
Reviews: Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Eric Raimy, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
       <reviews at linguistlist.org> 

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, 
and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <maria at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 11-Aug-2010
From: Daniel Davies < ddavies at cambridge.org >
Subject: Specimens of Hausa Literature: Robinson
 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:29:17
From: Daniel Davies [ddavies at cambridge.org]
Subject: Specimens of Hausa Literature: Robinson

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=21-3332.html&submissionid=2644391&topicid=2&msgnumber=1
  



Title: Specimens of Hausa Literature 
Series Title: Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies  

Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781108013253 


Author: Charles Henry Robinson

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108013253 Pages: 244 Price: U.K. £ 14.99


Abstract:

Hausa is an African language originating in Niger and northern Nigeria and
spoken widely in West and Central Africa as a trading language. This
anthology of Hausa texts (mainly Islamic religious verse and historical
narratives) was the first publication supported by the short-lived Hausa
Association, formed in 1891 to promote the study of the Hausa language and
people. Under its aegis the Reverend C. H. Robinson went on to produce a
ausa Grammar in 1897 and a Dictionary in 1899, making great advances in
Western knowledge of the language, despite the fact that some in the field
criticised him for his relatively short exposure to Hausa-speaking
countries. With facsimile reproductions of the manuscripts at actual size,
the texts collected in this book were the first published specimens of
Hausa writing. Each text is transcribed into in roman script and an English
translation is given on facing pages. 



Contents

Preface; 
Introduction; 
Bibliography; 
Specimens of Hausa literature; 
List of words; 
Facsimiles. 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation

Subject Language(s): Hausa (hau)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=49829


MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Brill          
		http://www.brill.nl	

	Cambridge Scholars Publishing          
		http://www.c-s-p.org	

	Cambridge University Press          
		http://us.cambridge.org	

	Cascadilla Press          
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	De Gruyter Mouton          
		http://www.degruyter.com/mouton	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Elsevier Ltd          
		http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics	

	Emerald Group Publishing Limited          
		http://www.emeraldinsight.com/	

	Equinox Publishing Ltd          
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/	

	European Language Resources Association - ELRA          
		http://www.elra.info.	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.eu	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Morgan & Claypool Publishers          
			

	Multilingual Matters          
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/	

	Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG          
		http://www.narr.de/	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Palgrave Macmillan          
		http://www.palgrave.com	

	Peter Lang AG          
		http://www.peterlang.com	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)          
		http://www.routledge.com/	

	Springer          
		http://www.springer.com	

	University of Toronto Press          
		http://www.utpjournals.com/	

	Wiley-Blackwell          
		http://www.wiley.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics
		http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm 

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://www.ipra.be 

	Langues et Linguistique
		http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ 

	Linguistic Association of Finland
		http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ 

	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
		http://www.lotpublications.nl/ 

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk 

	Utrecht institute of Linguistics
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ 
	



-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-21-3332