Focus in Hausa

Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-284) and indexes "This book grew out of my (1997) SOAS Ph.D. thesis Focus and copular constructions in Hausa, but . . . it has been reorganised and rewritten . . . .incorporating new research . . . [and] placing greater emphasis on the identification of cross-linguistic and typological patterns." -- p. [xi "The present study set out to achieve two main objectives: to provide a detailed description of the morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics of focus and non-verbal copular constructions in Hausa, and to develop a syntactic analysis of these constructions from a current generative perspective." -- p. [263 Contributor biographical information : loc.gov loc.gov loc.gov