Text:   Paul Newman. Forthcoming.  The Hausa Language New Haven: Yale
University Press (2000).

Hausa is a major African language of northern Nigeria and Niger spoken
by upwards of 40 million people. It belongs to the Chadic family of
the Afroasiatic phylum. This course will provide an overview of Hausa
structure and will delve more deeply into linguistically interesting
aspects of the language. Topics to be covered will include: (a)
syllable weight, "nasal diphthongs," tones and tone rules; (b)
grammatical gender;(c) the rich morphology of noun plurals; (d) the
nature of  verb plurals(i.e., "pluractional" verbs); (e) the verbal
"grade" system; (f) the tense-aspect system, (g) negation; (h) focus
and topicalization; (i)ideophones.

This course satisfies both the graduate and undergraduate language
structure requirement for linguistics majors.