Pragmatic marker to in Hausa (West Chadic, A.1; Nigeria)

Zając, Patryk

Pragmatic marker to in Hausa (West Chadic, A.1; Nigeria)

dc.contributor.author	Zając, Patryk
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-16T13:27:27Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-16T13:27:27Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.description.abstract	In Hausa language function words contribute to sentence structure mainly on the syntactic level. They can specify the attitude or mood of the speaker. The broad class of function words includes a sub-class of items known as Pragmatic Markers (PMs). So far interpretations of PM to in Hausa were based on its semantic rather than structural contributions to the utterance content. There is a lack of a closer look on to from the pragmatic perspective. The aim of this article is to demonstrate how the interpretation of to within the framework of PM can contribute to describing this item’s functions in discourse in a more precise way, i.a. for the purpose of preparation of resources for studying the Hausa language by foreigners such as bilingual dictionaries. I propose the interpretation of to as a PM with the binary category of procedural and representational meaning. It will be demonstrated with the examples extracted from radio conversations that PMs framework allows to comprehensively describe to marker in terms of its contextually determined functions and meanings.
dc.identifier.citation	"LingBaW. Linguistics Beyond and Within", 2024, Vol. 10, pp. 247-263.
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/lingbaw.18022
dc.identifier.issn	2450-5188
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/8163
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo KUL
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Pragmatic Marker
dc.subject	Hausa
dc.subject	radio
dc.subject	conversation
dc.subject	modal particle
dc.title	Pragmatic marker to in Hausa (West Chadic, A.1; Nigeria)
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article