Chadic and Hausa Linguistics – Selected Papers of Paul Newman with Commentaries - Softcover

CONTENTS: Syllable weight as a phonological variable (1972); Syllable weight and tone (1981) commentary by Larry M. Hyman/Grades, vowel-tone classes and extensions in the Hausa verbal system (1973) commentary by Graham Furniss/Proto-Chadic verb classes (1975) commentary by Petr Zima/The origin of Hausa /h/ (1976) commentary by Roxana Ma Newman/The formation of the imperfective verb stem in Chadic (1977) commentary by Victor Porkhomovsky/Chadic extensions and pre-dative verb forms in Hausa (1977) commentary by Philip J. Jaggar/Explaining Hausa feminines (1979) commentary by Russell G. Schuh/The Classification of Chadic within Afroasiatic (1980) commentary by H. Ekkehard Wolff/The historical development of medial /ee/ and /oo/ in Hausa (1979), Internal evidence for final vowel lowering in Hausa (1990) commentary by Henry Tourneux/Grammatical restructuring in Hausa: indirect objects and possessives (1982) commentary by Zygmunt Frajzyngier/The efferential (alias "causative") in Hausa (1983) commentary by Nina Pawlak/Tone and affixation in Hausa (1986) commentary by William R. Leben/Historical decay and growth in the Hausa lexicon (1991) commentary by Mustapha Ahmad/Facts count: an empiricist looks at indirect objects in Hausa (1991) commentary by Bernhard Caron/Bibliography of Paul Newman from 1964 onwards