Existential and possessive predications in Hausa (1).

From: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the languagesciences | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: Abdoulaye, Mahamane L. | Copyright information

Abstract

The functions of the Hausa particle da are, among others, an existential predicate, a comitative preposition, and a coordination conjunction. It is also used in the main possessive 'have' predication in combination with the copula naa 'be at'. In previous accounts, this possessive construction is said to have the structure [possessor is with possessed] or [possessor is (somewhere) with possessed], thus taking the particle da in this construction to be the comit...

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