Background
Newman, Paul was born on March 7, 1937 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.
(This book is a comprehensive grammar of Hausa, one of the...)
This book is a comprehensive grammar of Hausa, one of the largest and most important languages of Africa. Hausa is spoken by some 35 million people as a first language and approximately 15 million more as a second language. Paul Newman, a world authority on the Hausa language, draws on two centuries of Hausa linguistic scholarship to provide the most authoritative and detailed grammar of the language ever written. Unlike other grammars, this book is organised alphabetically. Readers will appreciate the ease with which they can find the specific individual topics that interest them. The grammar covers such expected topics as tonology, noun plurals, and verbal tense/aspect as well as often neglected topics, including verbal idioms, proper names, and language games. Newman also incorporates historical linguistic notes that explain and explicate current Hausa phenomena, especially puzzling anomalies, in terms of their Chadic and Afroasiatic origins.
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This up-to-date volume, the first Hausa-English dictionary published in a quarter of a century, is written with language learners and practical users in mind. With over 10,000 entries, it primarily covers Standard Nigerian Hausa but also includes numerous forms from Niger and other dialect areas of Nigeria. The dictionary includes new Hausa terminology for products, events, and activities of the modern world. Its definitions show the use of Hausa words in context, and particular attention is paid to idioms, figurative meanings, and special usages. As a guide to pronunciation, headwords and illustrative sentences are fully marked for tone and vowel length. The book adopts a unique approach to the presentation of verb forms that clarifies lexical relationships and their correct usage.
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Newman, Paul was born on March 7, 1937 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.
Bachelor, University Pennsylvania, 1958. Master of Arts, University Pennsylvania, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1967.
Juris Doctor, Indiana University, 2003.
He is the world’s leading authority on the Hausa language of Nigeria and on the Chadic language family. He has taught at Yale University, the University of Leiden, and the Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. He is currently Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University after serving two terms as chairman of the department.
Newman is a strong advocate of the theories of his mentor, Joseph Greenberg, and has published a work in defense of Greenberg’s classification of African languages entitled On Being Right.
Newman is also interested in the relation of language and law and is a strong advocate of civil liberties.
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(This book is a comprehensive grammar of Hausa, one of the...)
State board member American Civil Liberties Union Indiana. Member of American Bar Association, International Language and Law Association, Linguistic Society America, Indiana State Bar.