33.1647, Books: A History of the Hausa Language: Newman

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Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 18:07:34
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: A History of the Hausa Language: Newman

 


Title: A History of the Hausa Language 
Subtitle: Reconstruction and Pathways to the Present 
Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/african-and-caribbean-language-and-linguistics/history-hausa-language-reconstruction-and-pathways-present?format=HB 


Author: Paul Newman

Hardback: ISBN:  9781009123105 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781009123105 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781009123105 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

With more than sixty million speakers across Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, and
Ghana Hausa is one of the most widely spoken African languages. It is known
for its rich phonology and complex morphological and verbal systems. Written
by the world's leading expert on Hausa, this ground-breaking book is a
synthesis of his life's work, and provides a lucid and comprehensive history
of the language. It describes Hausa as it existed in former times and sets out
subsequent changes in phonology, including tonology, morphology, grammar, and
lexicon. It also contains a large loanword inventory, which highlights the
history of Hausa's interaction with other languages and peoples. It offers new
insights not only on Hausa in the past, but also on the Hausa language as
spoken today. This book is an invaluable resource for specialists in Hausa,
Chadic, Afroasiatic, and other African languages as well as for general
historical linguists and typologists.
 



Preface; 1. The hausa language; 2. Phonology; 3. Morphology; 4.
Syntax-grammar; 5. Loanwords; 6. Lexicon and etymologies; 7. Conclusion.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Hausa (hau)


Written In: English  (eng)

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