Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Variation in FOCUS constructions 9
5. Case assignment in Hausa, Kanakuru, and Ngizim 35
6. Word orders in Gude and the VSO Parameter 55
7. Complementizers in Hausa 87
8. An alternative model of word order in Proto-Chadic 111
9. A new look at the NP+NÀÀ+NP constructions 121
10. The verbal system of Ader Hausa 131
11. Gender and number in Miya 171
12. Origine de l’extension verbale (ǝ)r(ǝ) instrumental et connecteur, en Ouldémdé 183
13. Intonation in Chadic 199
14. Hausa and the prothetic alif 219
15. Double epenthesis and N-class in Chadic 233
16. Is Hausa an early or late stage Chadic language? 251
17. Verbal conjugation in Proto-Chadic 267
18. On semantics of Arabic loan words in Hausa 285
19. Index of topics 303
20. Index of languages and dialects 307
21. Index of names 309