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ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS 52 NO. 1 expert'; finally, the example taakà taa Ó kyâu (p. 238, last on the page) should be taakà taa fi kyâu `yours is the best'. Also, although the author meticulously marks tone and vowel length for all Hausa words in the dictionary, I detect some discrepancies in these markingssome of which may, however, be due to dialectal or individual variation (e.g., under TAF¤ [p. 193], in the last example, tàfìyuwaa is given instead of tàfìiyuwaa `be traversable'). Overall, Newman's new dictionary is a welcome addition to Hausa-English lexicography. It surely matches its companion English-Hausa dictionary (R. M. Newman 1990) in quality and will likewise establish itself as a primary reference for everyday users and researchers. References Awde, Nicholas 1996 Hausa-English/English-Hausa Dictionary. New York: Hippocrene Books. Newman, Paul 2000 The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. New Haven: Yale University Press. Newman, Roxana Ma 1990 An English-Hausa Dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press. Schachter, Paul 1985 Parts-of-Speech Systems. In Language Typology and Syntactic Description. Vol. 1: Clause Structure, edited by Timothy Shopen, 3--61. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Corpus Linguistics and World Englishes: An Analysis of Xhosa English. VIVIAN DE KLERK. Research in Corpus and Discourse.
Anthropological Linguistics – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Dec 10, 2010
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