Festschrift for Paul Newman’s 65th Birthday

Chadic and Hausa Linguistics

Selected Papers of Paul Newman with Commentaries

Edited by: Philip J. Jaggar †, H. Ekkehard Wolff. With contributions by: Mustapha Ahmad, Bernard Caron, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Graham Furniss, Larry Hyman, Philip J. Jaggar †, William R. Leben, Roxana Ma Newman, Nina Pawlak, Victor Porkhomovsky †, Russell G. Schuh †, Henry Tourneux, H. Ekkehard Wolff, Petr Zima †. Series founded by: Johannes Lukas †. Series edited by: Hilke Meyer-Bahlburg, H. Ekkehard Wolff.

Series: AFO Afrikanistische Forschungen Volume XII

2002
20 pp. Roman, 338 pp.
2 b/w photos, 1 facsimile reproduction, numerous tables, author- and language index
Text language(s): English
Format: 155 x 230 mm
530 g
Paperback
€ 59.80

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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 Bernard Caron

Bibliography of Paul Newman from 1964 onwards

 

Under this link you will find further Festschriften and obituary volumes for renowned scholars published in our programme.

Under these links you will find further studies of Chadic linguistics, as well as another festschrift on the occasion of Paul Newman’s 80th birthday:

Accompanying material:

• Dialoge, Prosa und Liedtexte aus dem Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache (Audio-CD) (ISBN 978-3-89645-007-4)
• Dictionary of Hausa Crafts / Kamus na Sana’o’in Hausa (ISBN 978-3-927620-52-0)
• From Oral Literature to Video (ISBN 978-3-89645-579-6)
• Grammatical and Semantic Relations in Hausa (ISBN 978-3-89645-540-6)
• Hausa and the Chadic Language Family (ISBN 978-3-927620-36-0)
• Hausa Comparative Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-927620-53-7)
• Klingenheben’s Law in Hausa (ISBN 978-3-89645-521-5)
• Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache (ISBN 978-3-89645-006-7)
• Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache mit Audio-CD (ISBN 978-3-89645-008-1)

Cross-reference:

• African Linguistics in the 21st Century (ISBN 978-3-89645-765-3)
• Aspects of the Aesthetics of Hausa Verbal Art (ISBN 978-3-89645-264-1)
• From the Tana River to Lake Chad – Research in African Oratures and Literatures (ISBN 978-3-89645-836-0)

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