Professor Philip J Jaggar
MA PhD (UCLA) BA MPhil (London)
Overview
Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa
(Professor of West African Linguistics)
Hausa language and linguistics; comparative Chadic.Contact Details
- Name:
- Professor Philip J Jaggar
- Email address:
- pj@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4387
- Personal Website:
- http://web.me.com/philipjaggar/
Interests / Disciplines
Linguistics; languagesTeaching
Research
Philip Jaggar’s current research interests cover several different areas of descriptive-analytical linguistics. Some of these studies document new discoveries in Hausa (see below for publication details), and they include:
- a unified account of special focus marking in historical narrative and wh-/focus expressions;
- the syntax and semantics of focus and interrogative constructions in Hausa and related Chadic languages, within a contemporary theoretical framework;
- adverbial quantification and negative-polarity items;
- performative constructions. He has also published on metaphorical extensions of the verbs ‘eat’ and ‘drink’ in Hausa.
Philip Jaggar also is principal applicant on the AHRC-funded project (£287,000, 2005-08) Early Nigerian Qur'anic manuscripts: an interdisciplinary study of the Kanuri glosses and Arabic commentaries.
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Available for
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- Africa
Country Expertise
- Nigeria
Languages
- Hausa
Publications
Authored Books
Jaggar, Philip J. (2001) Hausa. London Oriental and African Language Library, 7. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Jaggar, Philip J. (1996) Hausa Newspaper Reader. Maryland: Dunwoody Press.
Jaggar, Philip J. (1994) The Blacksmiths of Kano City, Nigeria: Tradition, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Twentieth Century. Westafrikanische Studien, Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte, 2. Cologne : Köppe Verlag.
Jaggar, Philip J. (1992) An Advanced Hausa Reader with Grammatical Notes and Exercises. London: SOAS.
Edited Books
Jaggar, Philip J. and Wolff, H. Ekkehard, eds. (2002) Chadic and Hausa Linguistics: Selected Papers of Paul Newman with Commentaries. Köln: Rudiger Köppe.
Jaggar, Philip J., ed. (1992) Papers in Honour of R.C. Abraham (1980-1963). African Languages and Cultures , Supplement 1. London: SOAS.
Chapters in Books
Jaggar, Philip J. (2009) 'Quantification and polarity: negative adverbial intensifiers ('never ever', 'not at all', etc.) in Hausa.' In: Cyffer, Norbert and Ebermann, Erwin and Ziegelmeyer, Georg, (eds.), Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond. Typological Studies in Language (87). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 57-69.
Jaggar, Philip J. and Buba, Malami (2009) 'Metaphorical extensions of 'eat' ---> [OVERCOME] and 'drink' ---> [UNDERGO] in Hausa.' In: Newman , John, (ed.), The Linguistics of Eating and Drinking. Typological Studies in Language, 84. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 229-251.
Jaggar, Phil and Luepke , Friederike (2008) 'North and West African languages.' In: Austin , Peter, (ed.), 1000 languages. The worldwide history of living and lost tongues. London: Thames & Hudson, pp. 60-85.
Jaggar, Philip J. (2006) 'The Hausa perfective tense-aspect used in wh-/focus constructions and historical narratives: a unified account.' In: Hyman, Larry M. and Newman, Paul, (eds.), West African Linguistics: Descriptive, Comparative, and Historical Studies in Honor of Russell G. Schuh. Studies in African Linguistics, pp. 100-133.
Jaggar, Philip J. (2006) 'More on in situ WH- and focus constructions in Hausa.' In: Ibriszimow, Dymitr and Tourneux, Henry and Wolff, Ekkehard H., (eds.), Chadic Linguistics/Linguistique Tchadique/Tschadistik. Cologne, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe, pp. 49-73.
Jaggar, Philip J. and Green , Melanie (2003) 'Ex-situ and In-situ Focus in Hausa: Syntax, Semantics and Discourse.' In: Lecarme, Jacqueline, (ed.), Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 187-214.
Jaggar, Philip J. (2001) 'Reflexives in Hausa.' In: Ibriszimow, Dymitr and Leger, Rudolf and Seibert, Uwe, (eds.), Von Aegypten zum Tschadsee. Eine Linguistische reise durch Afrika (Festschrift für Herrmann Jungraithmayr zum 65 Geburtstag). Würzburg: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. , pp. 213-228.
Jaggar, Philip J. (1996) 'Cultural performance and economic-political goals: an ethnographic study of blacksmiths in Kano (northern Nigeria).' In: Parkin, David and Caplan, Lionel and Fisher, Humphrey, (eds.), The Politics of Cultural Performance (Papers in Honour of Abner Cohen). Oxford & Providence: Berghahn., pp. 217-236.
Jaggar, Philip J. and Munkaila, Muhammed M. (1995) 'Evidence against the proposal that the Hausa pre-datival final -R verb = the "Grade 5" final -R/S verb (and an alternative analysis).' In: Ibriszimow, Dymitr and Leger, Rudolf, (eds.), Studia Chadica et Hamitosemitica. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe, pp. 289-304.
Jaggar, Philip J. (1991) 'Some 'unexpected' form-meaning correspondences between Hausa (West Chadic-A) and Guruntum (West Chadic-B)--how do we explain them?' In: Pilaszewicz, Stanislaw and Rzewuski, Eugeniusz, (eds.), Unwritten Testimonies of the African Past. Warsaw: Warsaw University., pp. 45-59.
Articles
Jaggar, Philip J. (2006) 'Performative constructions in Hausa.' Afrika und Übersee, 88 (1/2 (In Memoriam Johannes Lukas)). pp. 157-174.
Jaggar, Philip J. (2004) 'Roy Clive Abraham (1890-1963).' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . pp. 120-121.
Jaggar, Philip J. (1998) 'Restrictive vs nonrestrictive relative clauses in Hausa: where morphosyntax and semantics meet.' Studies in African Linguistics, 27 (2). pp. 199-237.
Jaggar, Philip J. (1994) 'Chadic languages.' The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. . pp. 500-501.
Jaggar, Philip J. (1994) 'Hausa.' The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics . pp. 1525-27.
Jaggar, Philip J. and Lavers, John E. (1994) 'Roy Clive Abraham.' The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics . p. 6.
Jaggar, Philip J. and Buba, Malami (1994) 'The space and time adverbials NAN/CAN in Hausa: cracking the deictic code.' Language Sciences, 16 ((3/4)). pp. 387-421.
Jaggar, Philip J. (1992) 'R.C. Abraham's early insights into Hausa pre-datival forms.' Papers In Honour of R. C. Abraham (1890-1963), African Languages and Cultures (Supplement 1). pp. 51-66.
Furniss, Graham and Jaggar, Philip J. (1991) 'Professor Jack Carnochan: a biographical note.' York Papers in Linguistics, 15 . pp. 281-284.
Jaggar, Philip J. '"THE CAUSATIVE CONTINUUM IN HAUSA: FROM SOURCE-ORIENTED ('AWAY') DIRECTIONAL TO DIRECT CAUSATIVE".' Studies in Language . (Submitted)
Jaggar, Philip J. 'The causative continuum in Hausa: from source-oriented ('away') directional to direct causative.' Studies in Language . (Submitted)
