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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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South-Bauchi West Pronominal and TAM Systems [PDF]

, 2006
This study of the SBW pronominal and TAM system is based on personal data collected in Nigeria on 8 languages : Zaranda, Langas, Dir, Danche, Baraza, Dott, Sigidi and Zaar.
Caron, Bernard
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Harmony, Head Proximity, and the Near Parallels between Nominal and Clausal Linkers [PDF]

, 2010
This paper puts forward a notion of harmonic word order that leads to a new generalisation over the presence or absence of disharmony: specific functional heads must cross-linguistically obey this notion of harmony absolutely, while for other categories ...
Philip, J
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Depressor consonants in Geji [PDF]

, 2008
International audienceGeji, a language spoken in Bauchi State (Northern Nigeria) belonging to the the West-B3 group of Chadic languages, has a tonal system based on a three-level distinction between Hi, Mid and Low, with Falling and Rising combinations ...
Caron, Bernard
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Le luri. Quelques notes sur une langue tchadique du Nigéria [PDF]

, 2004
Luri (a South-Bauchi Chadic language) spoken 15 km south of Bauchi, in Northern Nigeria, near Langas (9,83° East ; 10,17° North), in the original village of Luri (lúr).
Caron, Bernard
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A preliminary bibliography on focus [PDF]

, 1995
[I]n its present form, the bibliography contains approximately 1100 entries. Bibliographical work is never complete, and the present one is still modest in a number of respects.
Sasse, Hans-Jürgen
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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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"Terraces" and "terraced farms" in the languages of the Tangale-Waja Uplands [PDF]

, 2006
The mountains of the Tangale-Waja Uplands are inhabited by a number of small ethnic groups. They speak different languages which belong to two unrelated linguistic stocks.
Kleinewillinghöfer, Ulrich
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Nigerian English and the Phonotactic Influence of the West Chadic Languages

Universal Journal of Educational Research
Phonotactics is a fundamental aspect of phonology that governs the permissible combinations of sounds in a given language. It consists of rules that dictate how phonemes; the smallest units of sound can be arranged to form syllables and words.
Blessing Saina’an Lagan, Mary Daniel Nimram   +1 more
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Focus strategies in chadic

, 2004
We argue that the standard focus theories reach their limits when confronted with the focus systems of the Chadic languages. The backbone of the standard focus theories consists of two assumptions, both called into question by the languages under consideration. Firstly, it is standardly assumed that focus is generally marked by stress.
Hartmann, Katharina, Zimmermann, Malte
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