Malami Buba

List of John Benjamins publications in which Malami Buba is involved.

Articles

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

Součková, Kateřina and Malami Buba 2008 Intensive plurality: Hausa pluractional verbs and degree semantics Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008, Koppen, Marjo van and Bert Botma (eds.), pp. 133–144 | Article