West African languages. Linguistic theory and communication – EBOOK

The monograph covers the main aspects of studies on West African languages related to the diversity of structural patterns and complexity of their linguistic assignment. It includes various topics ranging from linguistic description and conceptualization patterns to the sociolinguistics of contemporary refugee camps. Typological diversity is enriched with the presentation of pidgin structures and sign languages. Structural differences between languages are seen from a comparative perspective, which also indicates the areal dimension of linguistic processes. The presentations of linguists from both Europe and Africa develop the idea of convergence area in West Africa, which is motivated by the contact between languages of different affiliations to language families and common cultural basis of language development.

The publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Poland license (CC BY 3.0 PL) (full license available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl/legalcode).

Keywords: West African languages, areal features, language communication, idiomatic expressions, lingua franca.

PhD assoc. prof. Nina Pawlak – is a professor of African linguistics, member of the Department of African Languages and Cultures, University of Warsaw. Her academic interests focus on Hausa, in comparative perspective they also cover other Chadic languages. The main fields of linguistic investigation are typology, language development, cognitive linguistics, culture and communication.

PhD Izabela Will – is an assistant professor at the Department of African Languages and Cultures at the University of Warsaw where she teaches Hausa, general linguistics, culture of Nigeria and African art. Her academic work focuses on Hausa language, culture of Northern Nigeria, and gestures produced by speakers of Hausa.

Nina Pawlak, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6949-3921
“Allah expressions” as a manifestation of common cultural area in West Africa
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.288-299

Aurore Montébran, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8828-6231
Asymmetries in negation in the Atlantic languages: a preliminary comparison
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.140-152

Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0600-2018
Categorization of phasal polarity items in Bambara (Mande)
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.99-126

Valentin Vydrin, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7822-4173
Clause chaining in Bambara
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.79-98

Dorothee Beermann, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8906-5235
Lars Hellan, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3043-120X
Enhancing grammar and valence resources for Akan and Ga
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.166-188

Sergio Baldi, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4099-1497
Rudolf Leger, https://orcid.org/
Innovative features of nouns and pronouns in Chadic languages of the Nigerian Gongola-Benue basin
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.46-56

Nina Pawlak, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6949-3921
Izabela Will, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2797-1160
Introduction
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.9-22

Philip J. Jaggar, https://orcid.org/
Let’s tidy up the grammar of Hausa and analyse after/behind in after class/after he arrives/he’s behind etc. as prepositions
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.153-165

Mary Edward, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5721-8535
Lexical iconicity in Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL) and Ghanaian Sign Language (GSL)
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.230-254

Judith Adaku Mgbemena, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3434-718X
Linguistic repertoires of refugees in Internally Displaced Peoples’ (IDP) camps in North East Nigeria
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.266-278

Vadim Dyachkov, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8798-2582
Ma-causatives in Tomo Kan Dogon: between causatives and passives
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.127-139

Gian Claudio Batic, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5040-7891
Measuring phonological complexity in West African languages
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.23-45

Barnard Caron, https://orcid.org/
Methodological and technical challenges of a corpus-based study of Naija
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.57-78

Olga Frąckiewicz, https://orcid.org/
Nigerian Pidgin English phraseology in the context of areal influences
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.213-229

Lendzemo Constantine Yuka, https://orcid.org/
On the shi- evaluative prefi x in Lamnso?
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.189-197

Yakubu Magaji Azare, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4647-8184
Phraseological units involving body-part terms: a corpus based analysis of Hausa to English translation
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.230-254

Aisha Umar Adamu, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5613-3983
The function of nonverbal regulators in Hausa face-to-face interaction
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.279-287

Vanessa Adzer, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8179-724X
Tiv compounds and compounding
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323546313.pp.198-212