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Perfectivity and time reference in Hausa

Linguistic Discovery, 2008
The relative marking in Hausa marks discourse presupposition in perfective and imperfective relative clauses and out-of-focus clauses of focus and fronted wh-questions. However, the Relative Perfective also appears in storyline narrative clauses and various accounts try to find a common feature between relative clauses and narrative context. This paper
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A multilingual dataset for offensive language and hate speech detection for hausa, yoruba and igbo languages [PDF]

arXiv
The proliferation of online offensive language necessitates the development of effective detection mechanisms, especially in multilingual contexts. This study addresses the challenge by developing and introducing novel datasets for offensive language detection in three major Nigerian languages: Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo.
arxiv  

Mondher Kilani et Maman Waziri Mato, Gomba Hausa. Dynamique du changement dans un village sahélien du Niger. Lausanne, Payot, 2000 (« Anthropologie-Terrains»). [PDF]

, 2001
Michel Adam
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Brotherhood at WMT 2024: Leveraging LLM-Generated Contextual Conversations for Cross-Lingual Image Captioning [PDF]

arXiv
In this paper, we describe our system under the team name Brotherhood for the English-to-Lowres Multi-Modal Translation Task. We participate in the multi-modal translation tasks for English-Hindi, English-Hausa, English-Bengali, and English-Malayalam language pairs.
arxiv  

Building lexicon-based sentiment analysis model for low-resource languages. [PDF]

MethodsX, 2023
Mohammed I, Prasad R.
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NaijaNLP: A Survey of Nigerian Low-Resource Languages [PDF]

arXiv
With over 500 languages in Nigeria, three languages -- Hausa, Yor\`ub\'a and Igbo -- spoken by over 175 million people, account for about 60% of the spoken languages. However, these languages are categorised as low-resource due to insufficient resources to support tasks in computational linguistics.
arxiv  

Contrastive focus [PDF]

, 2008
The article puts forward a discourse-pragmatic approach to the notoriously evasive phenomena of contrastivity and emphasis. It is argued that occurrences of focus that are treated in terms of "contrastive focus", "kontrast" (Vallduví & Vilkuna 1998) or ...
Zimmermann, Malte
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New trends in recent Hausa novels (1980 – 1984)

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 1990
The alm of this paper is to point to some new tendencies in the Hausa novel writing Milch have been evident since 1980. These novels mark a turning point in the development of the Hausa prose as they take into consideration some major shortcomings and ...
Stanisław Piłaszewicz
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Historical implications of a linguistic environment - towards a systemic approach [PDF]

, 2006
The aim of our project B6 “Towards a genesis of the ethnolinguistic situation at the southern and western fringes of lake Chad basin” within SFB 268 “West African Savannah” is to analyse the emergence and development of the complex presentday ...
Ibriszimow, Dymitr, Kawka, Rupert, Löhr, Doris, Mtaku, Christopher, Vogels, Raimund, Waziri, Ibrahim Maina   +5 more
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Exploring the Cultural Domain of Hausa Colour Terms

NUST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
The study of colour terms has been an interesting phenomenon in linguistics. The power of colour terms to name and classify things, animals and persons in purely traditional way cannot be over emphasized across cultures.
Dr. Danladi Bello Dogondaji
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