Drafts by Ali Usman Umar
Hausa as an L1 in PSC: A Psycholinguistic Approaches
In: I. A. M. Malumfashi, A. I. Sulaiman and I. Shehu, (eds.). Hausa Drama, Films and Popular Culture in the 21st Century. Kaduna: Garkuwa Publishing Ltd. , 2020
Kalmar wasan kwaikwayo ta zo cikin harɗaɗɗen suna wato wasa da kuma kwaikwayo, wanɗanda suka haɗu... more Kalmar wasan kwaikwayo ta zo cikin harɗaɗɗen suna wato wasa da kuma kwaikwayo, wanɗanda suka haɗu suka tayar da wasan kwaikwayo. Kalmar wasa, a cewar Qamusun Hausa na CNHN (2006:470), na nufin aiwatar da wani abu don raha ko nishaɗi; ko kuma yin wani abu wanda ba gaske ba. Waɗannan ma'anoni da aka ayyana kalmar wasa na da matuƙar tasiri wajen bayyana ma'anar wasan kwaikwayo. Ita kuwa kalmar kwaikwayo, a cewar Qamusun Hausa na CNHN (2006:260), na nufin kwatanta yin wani abu da ya taɓa faruwa a zahiri; ko koyon wani abu da wani ya yi, ko yake yi. Saboda haka, idan aka haɗa kalmar 'wasa' da 'kwaikwayo' sun zama kalma guda ɗauke da ma'ana guda wato wasankwaikwayo.
Bitar Ɗafi a Tasrifin Hausa (Revisiting Affix in Hausa Morphology), 2020
Affix in Hausa morphology has a long-standing tradition as it received a good deal of scholarly a... more Affix in Hausa morphology has a long-standing tradition as it received a good deal of scholarly academic treatments from the early works of Hausa grammar. Morphologically, Hausa being one of those affixing languages, its traditional grammarians opined that the language, under such linguistic treatments, has two types of affixes – i.e. a prefix and a suffix. However, current studies in Hausa word-formation have revealed that there are additional types of affixes in the language. Sample data of the study have been drawn from corpora of Hausa morphological analysis. The study adopted Stewart’s (2016) ‘Morpheme-Based Theory’ (MBT) with a view to analyzing the data towards describing and/or typifying concatenation of Hausa affix. Although some Hausa morphologists held a debate over its types, the present investigation posits that the language in question has five types of affixes; and far from it there exists one typologically ‘unique’ affixal concatenation.
Keywords: affix, Hausa, morpheme, root/stem, morphology, base
Book Reviews by Ali Usman Umar
Aminya Trust (1) and (2), 2020
Marubucin wannan littafi, Bashir Faruk Roukbah, tun daga hoton bangon littafin ya nuna saurayi ɗa... more Marubucin wannan littafi, Bashir Faruk Roukbah, tun daga hoton bangon littafin ya nuna saurayi ɗaya da 'yanmata biyu. A inda ko mutum bai shiga cikin littafin ba, zai fahimci ruhin soyayya da aure cikin wannan littafi. A gaba ɗaya marubucin ya tafiyar da ruhin wasan ta hanyar nau'in wasan tir-madalla inda Nura ya ja zaren wasan tun daga farko har zuwa ƙarshe a matsayin jangwarzo. Da farko rayuwarsa ta ƙuntata cikin wahalar soyayya da ya yi ta fama har ya haƙura, amma sai ya kasance a qarshe ya sami farin ciki. Idan aka duba za a ga marubucin ya tsara wasansa daki-daki ta kan lokaci-miƙe wato mai jeriya kamar cikin sarka-daga farko sai tsakiya sannan ƙarshe. An nuna cikin littafin cewa kafin a fara aure abu na farko tsakanin saurayi da budurwa shi ne, fara jan hankalin juna ta hanayar kwarkwasa da jefa kalmomin yabo da kuma so da qauna a tsakanin juna. Daga nan, sai a tsunduma cikin kogin soyayya wanda zai kai ga yin aure. Wannan ita ce rayuwar da Bashir Faruok Roukbah ya kalla, tare da nuna irin tankiyar da ke dabaibaye masoya a kan turbar soyayya. Kuma wannan littafin wasan kwaikwayon qirqirarsa mawallafin ya yi.
Teaching Documents by Ali Usman Umar
Conference Presentations by Ali Usman Umar
4th International Conference, 2019
In order to discern the starting point of drama of each society, there is a need to trace the tim... more In order to discern the starting point of drama of each society, there is a need to trace the time when such a society starts developing. As evident from what scholars examined, passing through cultural anthropology, there were certain hypotheses that were able to broadly theorize the emergence of drama. This paper attempts to review accounts for the foundation of Hausa drama by dwelling on its origin via ritual conventions and traditional ceremonies. It also identifies types of Hausa drama and its wider significance not only for literature but for various inter-disciplinary fields.
Papers by Ali Usman Umar
International Conference on African Indigenous Languages, 2024
This paper attempts to account for the significance of adopting indigenous African languages as m... more This paper attempts to account for the significance of adopting indigenous African languages as main mediums of instruction in pursuance of knowledge at every level of education to foster sustainable development of the notion. Many countries with positive accomplishment attained greater educational height in the areas like science and technology, sociology, national economics and commerce, agriculture, politics, information technology etc. as a result of being hardworking and adopting their native languages but not foreign languages. Therefore, in this paper benchmarks worthy of consideration have been highlighted to place a given language in the position of being a language of classroom interaction at all primary levels up to universities, thereby ensuring the incubation of an autonomous nation, like Nigeria, to be achieved as far it goes. In the final analysis, a glimpse of Hausa language in a ‘pathetic situation’ has been pinpointed despite having such characteristics of being an official language and a medium of instruction at all educational levels.
Key terms: classrooms, education, Hausa, language, national development,
Leadership, Good Governance and Sustainable Development in Nigeria: A Discourse , 2024
Tauraruwa Journal of Hausa Studies , 2023
This article attempts to investigate vocalization processing or non-linguistic forms prior to inf... more This article attempts to investigate vocalization processing or non-linguistic forms prior to infants’ verbalization from psycholinguistic point of view. As a creature of habit, human organisms tend to undergo certain developmental stages either cognitively, physiologically, socially or linguistically. To examine this pre-linguistic stage as one of those early developmental stages of the subject, observational inquiry and qualitative method of data diagnosis coupled with the Input-output Theory were used to achieve the reseach’s specific objectives. In this short research, it was
discovered that psycho-social factors and sound signal usage are what influence the infant’s vocalized mechanisms rather than the so-called internalized biological forces.
Key terms: infant, sound-signal, perception, production, vocalization.
Current Issues in Morphosyntax, Semantics and Pragmatics , 2021
Typologically, Hausa being one of those synthetic (inflectional) languages is
sub-grouped to so... more Typologically, Hausa being one of those synthetic (inflectional) languages is
sub-grouped to some extent under fusional morphology which makes it very
rich in terms of affixal morphology. Despite the richness of its affixation
processes, it is linguistically believed that there are two types of word-
formation in every language – simplex and complex word-forms. So, to
understand the notion of simplex and complex word-forms in Hausa this
investigation adopted Saussure’s (1959) model-theoretical frameworks known
as paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations. On the one hand, going by what
Haspelmath and Sims (2010) as well as Aronoff and Fudeman (2011) opine,
the study indicated that a simplex word comes from a root/stem to its kernel or
base form, whereby on the other hand a complex word is formed through
inflectional, derivative, reduplicative, compounding and modification
processes. Accordingly, the paper focuses on the inflection, derivation and
reduplication, for the fact that their morphological operations are only
permissible using affixal morphemes when it comes to generating a complex
word. It is, however, argued, in this paper, that compounding and modification
can hardly be more productive in the same way inflection, derivation and
reduplication can be.
Keywords: complex word, morphology, paradigm, simplex word, syntagm,
Tasambo Journal of Language, Literature and Culture (TJLLC) , 2024
Hausa language is not only a tool for communication but also a medium for creative writings, rhe... more Hausa language is not only a tool for communication but also a medium for creative writings, rhetorical expressions and language art mastery by both primary schooled children and advanced learners. This research aims at investigating primary pupils’ competence pertaining to Integrated Language Core (henceforth ILC). The ILC help pupils to develop sound communicative skills, if seriously handled. In addition, the research in question is to investigate a more comprehensive language art usage and a more complex grammatical structure regarding children language development in the classroom with Hausa as their first language (L1). Being an “action research”, the methodology used in this study involved field research whereby four selected primary schools – as our case-study – were visited; also, participants’ observation and
questionnaires were administered with a view to having a fact-finding report of Hausa-teaching-learning inadequacy. Using qual-quan investigation, the result of study discovered certain problems that hinder children’s ability to the appropriate Hausa language teaching (henceforth HLT) development. It is also reported that the poor conditions of both teachers and pupils coupled with the poor or paucity of teaching facilities encountered and at the same time lack of interest towards the subject as a
whole are the factors responsible for the setback in both teaching and learning of Hausa language. It is worth noting that the rationale behind conducting this research is to recommend ways of ameliorating or improving teaching and learning of Hausa language especially in primary school classes (henceforth PSCs) as an L1.
Keywords: applied linguistics, Hausa language, L1, teaching/learning, PSCs, pupils
Tauraruwa Journal of Hausa Studies (TJoHS), ISSN: 2814-0222 , 2022
Wannan takarda mai taken, “Auratayyar Hikima Da Salon Sarrafawa: Ɓurɓushin Dabarun Jawo Hankali a... more Wannan takarda mai taken, “Auratayyar Hikima Da Salon Sarrafawa: Ɓurɓushin Dabarun Jawo Hankali a Cikin Karin Maganar Hausa”, ta yi nazari ne a kan yadda ake yin amfani da dabarun jawo hankali a cikin karin maganar Hausa. Manufar takardar ita ce a fito da yadda ake samun dabarun sarrafa harshe a cikin karin maganar Hausa. Saɓanin tunanin da wasu suke da shi na cewa ana samun dabarun a cikin waƙoƙi ne kawai. Karin magana aba ce mai cike da hikima da ke bayyana armashin harshe, a yayin da su kuma waɗannan dabarun sarrafawa babban aikinsu shi ne, ƙara wa zance armashi. Ke nan amfani da su a cikin matanin adabi ya zama tamkar kwalliya ga kyakkyawan mutum. To, haka waɗannan dabaru suka zama a cikin karin maganar Hausa. Domin cimma manufar binciken, an yi amfani da karatun ƙwaƙƙwafi wajen zaƙulo misalan kare-karen magana masu ɗauke da dabarun a cikinsu, sannan aka fito da ire-iren dabarun tare da nuna yadda aka sarrafa su. Dabarun da aka mayar da hankali a kansu kuwa sun haɗa da kamanci na daidaito da na fifiko da kuma na gazawa. Haka nan a ƙarƙashin dabarun Jinsintarwa, an ga kare-karen magana masu mutuntarwa da dabbantarwa da abuntarwa da kuma abuntarwar abuntarwa. Daga ƙarshe, takardar ta tabbatar da cewa akwai waɗannan dabaru a cikin karin maganar Hausa kuma rawar da dabarun suke takawa a cikin waƙoƙi ta yi daidai da wadda suke takawa a cikin karin magana, wato ƙara wa zance armashi da burgewa musamman, idan aka yi la’akari da yadda aka kawo ma’anonin wasu kalmomin da aka yi amfani da su a cikin dabarun na jawo hankali kamar yadda binciken ya kawo. A taƙaice dai takardar ta nuna akwai auratayyar a tsakaninsu.
Muhimman Kalmomi: Karin Magana, Hikima, Salon Sarrafawa, Dabarun Jawo
Hankali, Auratayya
Tauraruwa Journal of Hausa Studies (TJoHS), 2022
The ability to use rhetoric or oratorical skills mixed up with a huge figuration or metaphorical ... more The ability to use rhetoric or oratorical skills mixed up with a huge figuration or metaphorical language use in one's own expression is a special gift to a few exceptional individuals in every given speech community. This paper attempts to study the categories of people in Hausa community who are characterized with the art of oratorical eloquence in their speeches or write-ups. The aim here is to identify the orators based on their pragmatic wording, sociolinguistic identities and professionalism; to point out areas of rhetoric application; and to account for orators' linguistic influence in shaping Hausa language, philosophy, epistemics, forlklore and communication. To that effect, whenever one hears communicative competence which is beautified using rhetorical skills, figurations or metaphorical expressions and logical reasoning, it cannot be compared to mere literal expressions as such. The study positioned the good command of language arts via communicative competence and eloquent prowess under pragmatics and semiotics which really influences how well the true meanings of what is communicated will be deciphered.
Key words: communicative competence, language use, logic, orator, rhetoric, figuration
GADAU JOURNAL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES , 2021
This study focuses on the analysis of orthographical errors committed on outdoor messages. The st... more This study focuses on the analysis of orthographical errors committed on outdoor messages. The study tries to determine whether the billboard advertising copies written in Hausa language found in Kano follow the conventional rules of Hausa orthography.To explore the orthographical errors found in the billboard advertising copies and to suggest the proper ways of writing billboard advertising copies. The data of this study comprises 20 billboard advertising copies written in Hausa language. A purposive sampling was used to select the sample. The researchers collected the data by taking the pictures of the billboards in different locations in the Kano metropolitan. The units of analysis in this study were the conventional rules often violated in 20 selected samples of Hausa billboard advertising messages. Many orthographical deviations were found, which include deviation from phonetic and phonological rules, spelling rules, merger and separation rules, capitalization, and punctuation rules. The paper recommends that all the companies involved in advertisement should use people who knows the language and its orthographical rules in order to avoid such deviations.
Gadau Journal of Arts and Humanities BASUG, 2021
This study focuses on the analysis of orthographical errors committed on outdoor messages. The st... more This study focuses on the analysis of orthographical errors committed on outdoor messages. The study tries to determine whether the billboard advertising copies written in Hausa language found in Kano follow the conventional rules of Hausa orthography.To explore the orthographical errors found in the billboard advertising copies and to suggest the proper ways of writing billboard advertising copies. The data of this study comprises 20 billboard advertising copies written in Hausa language. A purposive sampling was used to select the sample. The researchers collected the data by taking the pictures of the billboards in different locations in the Kano metropolitan. The units of analysis in this study were the conventional rules often violated in 20 selected samples of Hausa billboard advertising messages. Many orthographical deviations were found, which include deviation from phonetic and phonological rules, spelling rules, merger and separation rules, capitalization, and punctuation rules. The paper recommends that all the companies involved in advertisement should use people who knows the language and its orthographical rules in order to avoid such deviations.
In: A. Mu’azu, A. Musa, I. Mukhtar, H.M. Yakasai, Y.M. Azare & J.S. Adamu (eds.) Hausa within Chadic Studies in the 21st Century, A Festschrift in Honour of Professor Nina Pawlak. , 2021
Affix in Hausa morphology has a long-standing tradition as it received a good deal of scholarly a... more Affix in Hausa morphology has a long-standing tradition as it received a good deal of scholarly academic treatments from the early works of Hausa grammar. Morphologically, Hausa being one of those affixing languages, its traditional grammarians opined that the language, under such linguistic treatments, has two types of affixes – i.e. a prefix and a suffix. However, current studies in Hausa word-formation have revealed that there are additional types of affixes in the language. Sample data of the study have been drawn from corpora of Hausa morphological analysis. The study adopted Stewart’s (2016) ‘Morpheme-Based Theory’ (MBT) with a view to analyzing the data towards describing and/or typifying concatenation of Hausa affix. Although some Hausa morphologists held a debate over its types, the present investigation posits that the language in question has five types of affixes; and far from it there exists one typologically ‘unique’ affixal concatenation.
Keywords: affix, Hausa, morpheme, root/stem, morphology, base
In: M.A.Mu'azu, M. Munkaila, A.I. Ahmed, A.U. Girei & B. Usman (eds.) Language & Linguistics, Literature, Culture and Pedagogy. A Festschrift in Honour of Late Professor Mustapha Abba., 2020
Collocational information and its patterns are said to be languagespecific. This paper attempts t... more Collocational information and its patterns are said to be languagespecific. This paper attempts to identify some Hausa lexical collocations from phraseological continua. In achieving the aim of the study, a general overview of Hausa collocational patterns is given from the works of its predecessors. The paper uses a textbased corpus extraction as a method of data collection to attest that Hausa has several classifications of lexical collocations. For analysis, the study adopts Firth's (1957a) Contextual Field Theory to discuss how the patterns are operated in Hausa. Ultimately, the paper advocates the use of text-based corpus data for collocational extractions in order to justify the substantiation of those collocational patterns identified with Hausa language.
In: I. A. M. Malumfashi, A. I. Sulaiman and I. Shehu, (eds.). Hausa Drama, Films and Popular Culture in the 21st Century. Kaduna: Garkuwa Publishing Ltd. , 2020
Kalmar wasan kwaikwayo ta zo cikin harɗaɗɗen suna wato wasa da kuma kwaikwayo, wanɗanda suka haɗu... more Kalmar wasan kwaikwayo ta zo cikin harɗaɗɗen suna wato wasa da kuma kwaikwayo, wanɗanda suka haɗu suka tayar da wasan kwaikwayo. Kalmar wasa, a cewar Qamusun Hausa na CNHN (2006:470), na nufin aiwatar da wani abu don raha ko nishaɗi; ko kuma yin wani abu wanda ba gaske ba. Waɗannan ma'anoni da aka ayyana kalmar wasa na da matuƙar tasiri wajen bayyana ma'anar wasan kwaikwayo. Ita kuwa kalmar kwaikwayo, a cewar Qamusun Hausa na CNHN (2006:260), na nufin kwatanta yin wani abu da ya taɓa faruwa a zahiri; ko koyon wani abu da wani ya yi, ko yake yi. Saboda haka, idan aka haɗa kalmar 'wasa' da 'kwaikwayo' sun zama kalma guda ɗauke da ma'ana guda wato wasankwaikwayo.
In: I. Mukhtar, A. S. Muhammad and N. Lawal (eds.) A Seasoned Hausa Phonologist: A Gedenkschrift for Late Professor M.A.Z. Sani. Published by the Department of Nigerian Languages, Bayero University, Kano. Kano: WT Commercial Printing and Publishing., 2021
This chapter deliberates on collocational use and behaviour of certain recurrent set expressions ... more This chapter deliberates on collocational use and behaviour of certain recurrent set expressions in Hausa with respect to their aspects of collocative meaning and the degree of collocability. Collocation is ubiquitous in everyday language communication, as a result of which, it is so substantial that language users need to take its pervasive practice into consideration; for, they should know when and why to be processing the collocational resources. It is obvious that meaning, context and culture are closely intertwined foregrounding with which the foundation for the background knowledge of more and more collocational information are naturally institutionalized for language use. The method employed for this paper is based on careful listening, consideration and observation of what native speakers are used to saying as their institutionalized expressions. We then intuitively retrieved such data in justification of the behaviour and usage of collocating words, and also the same data are analysed using contextualism or contextual field theory as its speculative yardstick. In the final analysis, the paper rationalized that the collocative meaning of the collocating words could be determined either in abstraction or literal meaning. Also, the reasons why words collocate or co-occur are because of their context of use, cultural norms, meaning relations, and mutual expectancy. Another thing which rendered the collocational use in the language more readily accessible, interesting, and worthwhile is both its ubiquity and the degree of collocability.
Jalingo Journal of Linguistics and Literary Studies (JAJOLLS), 2021
Nau’o’in wasan kwaikwayon Hausa aikatacce da rubutacce ba su daɗe ba idan an kwatanta da rubutacc... more Nau’o’in wasan kwaikwayon Hausa aikatacce da rubutacce ba su daɗe ba idan an kwatanta da rubutacciyar waƙa da rubutun zube. Cikin wannan bincike an bi diddigin tarihin samuwar aikatacce da rubutaccen wasan kwaikwayon Hausa. Kamar yadda binciken ya gano an fara samun rubutaccen wasan kwaikwayon Hausa tun daga ayyukan Haji Ahmadu Kano (1898) da Rudolf Prietze (1924) ta hanyar amfani da labarum gargajiya da hikiyoyi.Yayin da, a gefe guda, aikatcce kuwa ya fara bayyana a ƙarshen gomiyar shekarar 1930 cikin wasannin da Malam Aminu Kano (1938) ya shisshirya da kuma na Abubakar Tunau (1943) ta hanyar dandamalantar da ƙirƙirarrun wasannin kwaikwayo. Haka kuma wannan takarda ta kawo nau’o’in ruhin aikatacce/rubutaccen wasan kwaikwayo guda tara (9), sannan aka ƙarƙare bitar wannan bincike da hanyoyi guda bakwai (7) waɗanda akan bi wajen samar da wasannin kwaikwayon Hausa.
Fitattun Kalmomi: wasan kwaikwayo, aikatacce, rubutacce, mashiryin wasa, marubucin wasa
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Keywords: affix, Hausa, morpheme, root/stem, morphology, base
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Key terms: classrooms, education, Hausa, language, national development,
discovered that psycho-social factors and sound signal usage are what influence the infant’s vocalized mechanisms rather than the so-called internalized biological forces.
Key terms: infant, sound-signal, perception, production, vocalization.
sub-grouped to some extent under fusional morphology which makes it very
rich in terms of affixal morphology. Despite the richness of its affixation
processes, it is linguistically believed that there are two types of word-
formation in every language – simplex and complex word-forms. So, to
understand the notion of simplex and complex word-forms in Hausa this
investigation adopted Saussure’s (1959) model-theoretical frameworks known
as paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations. On the one hand, going by what
Haspelmath and Sims (2010) as well as Aronoff and Fudeman (2011) opine,
the study indicated that a simplex word comes from a root/stem to its kernel or
base form, whereby on the other hand a complex word is formed through
inflectional, derivative, reduplicative, compounding and modification
processes. Accordingly, the paper focuses on the inflection, derivation and
reduplication, for the fact that their morphological operations are only
permissible using affixal morphemes when it comes to generating a complex
word. It is, however, argued, in this paper, that compounding and modification
can hardly be more productive in the same way inflection, derivation and
reduplication can be.
Keywords: complex word, morphology, paradigm, simplex word, syntagm,
questionnaires were administered with a view to having a fact-finding report of Hausa-teaching-learning inadequacy. Using qual-quan investigation, the result of study discovered certain problems that hinder children’s ability to the appropriate Hausa language teaching (henceforth HLT) development. It is also reported that the poor conditions of both teachers and pupils coupled with the poor or paucity of teaching facilities encountered and at the same time lack of interest towards the subject as a
whole are the factors responsible for the setback in both teaching and learning of Hausa language. It is worth noting that the rationale behind conducting this research is to recommend ways of ameliorating or improving teaching and learning of Hausa language especially in primary school classes (henceforth PSCs) as an L1.
Keywords: applied linguistics, Hausa language, L1, teaching/learning, PSCs, pupils
Muhimman Kalmomi: Karin Magana, Hikima, Salon Sarrafawa, Dabarun Jawo
Hankali, Auratayya
Key words: communicative competence, language use, logic, orator, rhetoric, figuration
Keywords: affix, Hausa, morpheme, root/stem, morphology, base
Fitattun Kalmomi: wasan kwaikwayo, aikatacce, rubutacce, mashiryin wasa, marubucin wasa