Chadic and Hausa linguistics

CONTENTS Syllable weight as a phonological variable (1972); Syllable weight and tone (1981), commentary by Larry M. Hyman. Grades, vowel-tone classes and extensions in the Hausa verbal system (1973), commentary by Graham Furniss. Proto-Chadic verb classes (1975), commentary by Petr Zima. The origin of Hausa /h/ (1976), commentary by Roxana Ma Newman. The formation of the imperfective verb stem in Chadic (1977), commentary by Victor Porkhomovsky. Chadic extensions and pre-dative verb forms in Hausa (1977), commentary by Philip J. Jaggar. Explaining Hausa feminines (1979), commentary by Russell G. Schuh. The Classification of Chadic within Afroasiatic (1980), commentary by H. Ekkehard Wolff. The historical development of medial /ee/ and /oo/ in Hausa (1979), Internal evidence for final vowel lowering in Hausa (1990), commentary by Henry Tourneux. Grammatical restructuring in Hausa: indirect objects and possessives (1982), commentary by Zygmunt Frajzyngier. The efferential (alias “causative”) in Hausa (1983), commentary by Nina Pawlak. Tone and affixation in Hausa (1986), commentary by William R. Leben. Historical decay and growth in the Hausa lexicon (1991), commentary by Mustapha Ahmad. Facts count: an empiricist looks at indirect objects in Hausa (1991), commentary by Bernhard Caron. Bibliography of Paul Newman from 1964 onwards REZENSION „This collection of the most important articles with commentaries is quite original form of celebrating a jubilee of the outstanding Scholar and Master of African linguistics. Let us hope that the next stage of his life and splendid scientific career will be marked by a voluminous and equally impressive Festschrift.“ (Stanislaw Pilaszewicz in „Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures“ 33/2003, 111-117) One further festschrift in honour of Paul Newman has been published in our programme: „African Linguistics in the 21st Century - Essays in Honor of Paul Newman“, ISBN 978-3-89645-765-3.