7. Comitative, coordinating, and inclusory constructions in Hausa

1.Introduction 2. The comitative preposition dà ‘with’ 2.1 The development of the comitative dà from the existential dà 2.2 General features of the comitative construction 3. The NP coordinator dà ‘and’ 3.1 General features of NP coordination 3.2 Possibilities of ellipsis in coordination 3.3 Grammaticalization from dà ‘with’ to dà ‘and’ 4. Properties of comitative and coordinating constructions 4.1 Syntactic properties of comitative and coordinating constructions 4.2 Semantic and pragmatic properties of comitative and coordinating constructions 5. Inclusory comitative structures and inclusory coordinations 5.1 The inclusory comitative constructions 5.2 The inclusory coordination constructions 6. Conclusion