Klingenheben’s Law in Hausa

Author: Paul Newman. Series edited by: Dymitr Ibriszimow, Henry Tourneux, H. Ekkehard Wolff.

Series: CLT Chadic Linguistics · Linguistique Tchadique · Tschadistik Volume 2

2004
10 pp. Roman, 103 pp.
1 table, index: personal names and languages
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
240 g
Paperback
€ 34.80

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In 1927/28, August Klingenheben (* 11 May 1886 in Barmen/Germany, † 26 Jan 1967 in Hamburg) published a remarkably insightful study of syllable-final consonants in Hausa. The findings in this important paper, which are now referred to as Klingenheben’s Law, set the groundwork for the understanding of Hausa historical phonology. Klingenheben’s Law has been accepted naively and uncritically, more or less as originally described.

In Part I of the present monograph, the author provides a detailed analysis of Klingenheben’s Law with the aim to show where it is accurate, where it is inaccurate, and where it can be modified and expanded so as to account for the broader array of data that is now available. Since not everyone has easy access to Klingenheben’s original paper, and since many scholars whose command of German, or lack thereof, puts the paper beyond their reach, the author has prepared an English translation of the original paper along with historical and analytical notes, which constitutes Part II of this monograph.

Thus, whereas the author identifies a number of specific matters where Klingenheben’s description could be improved upon, this study served to increase the author’s appreciation for his contribution to Hausa linguistics and to strenghten his professional admiration for the exeptional quality of his scholarship.

 

Under these links you will find learning and reading material on the Hausa language and culture, as well as publications on the African Studies history at the University of Leipzig/Germany:

Accompanying material:

• African Linguistics in the 21st Century (ISBN 978-3-89645-765-3)
• Chadic and Hausa Linguistics (ISBN 978-3-89645-043-2)
• 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)
• 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:

• A Corpus Dictionary of Vai (ISBN 978-3-89645-176-7)
• Afrikanistik in Leipzig, 1895–1945 (ISBN 978-3-89645-309-9)
• Hausa Verbal Compounds (ISBN 978-3-89645-292-4)
• Tashelhiyt Berber Folktales from Tazerwalt (South Morocco) (ISBN 978-3-89645-383-9)

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