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Pragmatic marker to in Hausa (West Chadic, A.1; Nigeria)

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In Hausa language function words contribute to sentence structure mainly on the syntactic level. They can specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. The broad class of function words includes a sub-class of items known as Pragmatic Markers (PMs).
Patryk Zając
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The grammatical expression of focus in West Chadic: Variation and uniformity in and across languages

, 2011
The article provides an overview of the grammatical realization of focus in four West Chadic languages (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic). The languages discussed exhibit an intriguing crosslinguistic variation in the realization of focus, both among themselves as ...
Malte Zimmermann, Zimmermann, Malte
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Mubi-Toram lexicon in Chadic and Afro-Asiatic perspective I: Lexemes with initial *B-

Mubi-Toram is a group of languages in the Republic of Chad (some of them close to the border with Sudan). This group belongs to the eastern subbranch of Chadic and thus represents the member of the immense Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) macrofamily ...
Takács, Gábor
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Online Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics [PDF]

, 2013
The Online Bibliography of Chadic and Hausa Linguistics (OBCHL), henceforth the ‘biblio’, is an updated, expanded, and corrected edition of the bibliography published some fifteen years ago by Rüdiger Köppe Verlag (Newman 1996).
Newman, Paul
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Notes on Gàlì (Miltu), a moribund Chadic language (Republic of Chad)

, 2019
A short description of Gali, an East Chadic language, based on field notes taken in ...
Peust, Carsten, Jungraithmayr, Herrmann
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Grammaticalization as gradual process in Hausa reduplication

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2006
Hausa is a Chadic language of Afroasiatic family that extensively uses reduplication for grammatical and lexical formatives. Reduplication as a universal phenomenon is viewed in both synchronic and diachronic perspectives and it has been studied on a ...
Hafizu Miƙo Yakasai
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The grammatical expression of focus in West Chadic

, 2016
The article provides an overview of the grammatical realization of focus in four West Chadic languages (Chadic, Afro-Asiatic). The languages discussed exhibit an intriguing crosslinguistic variation in the realization of focus, both among themselves as ...
Zimmermann, Malte
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Shaping the word structure by iambic foot in Migama

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2012
The following paper analyzes the role of metrical structure in shaping the East Chadic B language, Migama. Specifically, it will be argued that, similarly to Hausa, while having no overt influence on the language's tone distribution, iambic foot serves ...
Bartosz Kurzyca
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Reviews

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 1997
Reviews of: Roman Loimeier, Islamic Reform and Political Change in Northern Nigeria (Series in Islam and Society in Africa), Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997, 415 pp.
Stanisław Piłaszewicz, Nina Pawlak
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Genetic history of Chad. [PDF]

Am J Phys Anthropol, 2018
Shriner D, Rotimi CN.
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