Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; F. W. Parsons- A Biographical Sketch and List of Publications; Contributors; A Note on Transcription; Eaminees, Examiners and Examinations: The Hausa Language Requirements of the Northern Nigerian Government, 1901-62 A. H. M. Kirk-Greene Part I: Language and Linguistics 1. The Vowels of Hausa J. Carnochan 2. Fonction de la diathèse dans le verb haoussa Claude Gouffé 3. Discourse-deployability and Indefinite NP-marking in Hausa: a Demonstration of the Universal ‘Categoriality Hypothesis’ Philip P. Jaggar 4. Hausa and Chadie- A Reappraisal Herrmann Jungraithmayr 5. A Nag-giong question in Hausa: Remarks on the Syntax and Semantics of the Plural Noun of Agent J. A. McIntyre 6. O Shush! An Exclamatory Construction in Hausa Paul Newman 7. Augmentative Adjectives in Hausa Roxana Ma Newman 8. On the Distribution of Consonants and Vowels in the Initial Syllable of Disyllabic Grade 2 Verbs in Hausa Nina Pilszczikowa-Chodak 9. Resumptive Strategies in Hausa Laurice Tuller Part II: Language and Literature 9. Aƙilu Aliyu, Wordsmith: some Aspects of the Language of his Poetry D. W. Arnott 10. The Use of Linguistic Devices in Hausa Poetry Dauda Muhammad Bagari 11. The Language of Praise and Vilification: Two Poems by Muhammadu Audi of Gwandu about Abubakae, Emir of Nupe Graham Furniss 12. New Vocabulary and Idioms in Modern Hausa Literature Stanislaw Pilaszewicz 13. Préalable to a Theory of Hausa Poetic Meter Russell G. Schuh 14. Lexical Incompatibility as a Mark of ‘Karin Magana’ Neil Skinner 15. The Language of Hausa Riddles Ibrahim Yaro Yahaya 16. A Hausa Language and Linguistics Bibliography 1976-86, (including supplementary material for other years) Nicholas Awde; Index

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Graham Furniss, Philip J. Jaggar