Philip J. Jaggar

List of John Benjamins publications in which Philip J. Jaggar is involved.

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Hausa

Philip J. Jaggar

Hausa is a major world language, spoken as a mother tongue by more than 30 million people in northern Nigeria and southern parts of Niger, in addition to diaspora communities of traders, Muslim scholars and immigrants in urban areas of West Africa, e.g. southern Nigeria, Ghana, and Togo, and the… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 7] 2001. xxxiv, 754 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Jaggar, Philip J. 2009 Quantification and polarity: Negative Adverbial Intensifiers (‘never ever’, ‘not at all’, etc.) in Hausa Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond, Cyffer, Norbert, Erwin Ebermann and Georg Ziegelmeyer (eds.), pp. 57–70 | Article

Hausa has a typologically interesting but poorly understood set of quantifying time and degree adverbs – equivalent to English 'never ever', 'not at all', etc. – which behave as negative polarity items and enhance the pragmatic impact of a negative utterance (both verbal and non-verbal).… read more

Jaggar, Philip J. and Malami Buba 2009 Metaphorical extensions of 'eat' --> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' --> [UNDERGO] in Hausa The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking, Newman, John (ed.), pp. 229–251 | Article

The consumption verbs ci ‘eat’ and shaa ‘drink’ in Hausa are rich sources of metaphorical extensions into a variety of cognate semantic domains (Gouffé 1966; Williams 1991). Prototypical ci ‘eat’ metaphors encode overcoming/control of a patient or theme by an animate/human agent (and part… read more

Green, Melanie and Philip J. Jaggar 2003 Ex-situ and in-situ focus in Hausa: Syntax, semantics and discourse Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000, Lecarme, Jacqueline (ed.), pp. 187–214 | Article

Jaggar, Philip J. 1988 Affected subject (‘grade 7’) verbs in Hausa: what are they and where do they come from? Passive and Voice, Shibatani, Masayoshi (ed.), pp. 387–416 | Article

Jaggar, Philip J. 1983 Some dimensions of topic-NP continuity in Hausa narrative Topic Continuity in Discourse: A quantitative cross-language study, Givón, T., pp. 365–424 | Article