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Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.18710/KE678O |
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Publication Date
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2025-11-24 |
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Title
| Background data for: A chained metonymic approach to ίdὸ ‘eye’ constructional metonymies in Hausa |
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Author
| Tsakuwa, Mustapha BalaYulin UniversityORCID0000-0001-9394-8973
Wen, XuSouthwest UniversityORCID0000-0003-3781-1125
Lamido, IbrahimFederal University of KashereORCID0009-0005-9335-7467 |
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Point of Contact
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Tsakuwa, Mustapha Bala (Yulin University) |
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Description
| Hausa has the largest population of speakers in the Chadic language family and is spoken in the West African sub-region as a first language, particularly in Nigeria, Niger, Benin, Chad, Togo, and Ghana (Caron 2013). It is spoken by millions of non-Hausas as a second language (Inuwa 2017). Hausa is one of the three dominant languages spoken in Nigeria as a national language, and it is predominantly spoken in the northern Nigerian states (Newman 2000; Crysmann 2010). To the best of our knowledge, there is no reliable existing body of Hausa information or a massive electronic collection of Hausa text, which linguists can consult for research. This dataset is an attempt to contribute to the development of a robust body of information and/or a comprehensive electronic collection of Hausa texts, thereby enhancing the reliability of Hausa linguistic research.
This dataset was basically sourced through researchers' native-speaker intuition, observations, and unstructured interviews. This dataset, originally compiled as preparation for the related publication, contains 332 eye-related expressions on different topics related to the typical Hausa people's lifestyle, e.g., related to culture, religion, politics, education, and health. The datafile contains a totality of about 6444 words, all glossed in English. (2023-03-20)
Abstract of related publication: Unlike previous studies which generally seem to focus more on Hausa metaphorical expressions, this study investigates a wide range of uses of ίdὸ ‘eye’ in its constructional metonymy patterns in the language by exploring corpus data that contain over 300 eye-related expressions. We observe that some constructional metonymies maintain a set of fixed words and syntax in activating conceptual shifts and producing eye metonymies while others have semi-fixed patterns and produce the same metonymies. Lexical items like tsόkάlế, kὰn, ὰ, dὰ, and bὰsίrὰ among others are constant constituents in the constructional metonymies in which they appear. In the metonymic chaining, the basic mapping of eye metonymies occurs via the PART FOR PART relation under E-metonymies and the SUB- FOR SUPERCATEGORY relation under C-metonymies. We also observe that E→E→C coding has the highest chained metonymic structure in the creation of the eye metonymies. Both attributive and predicative colligates motivate metonymic senses in the language. Finally, our analysis reveals that the eye is metonymically conceptualized and semantically extended to various target domains and produces metonymic conceptualizations that make the eye stand for vision, desire, envy, control, attention, perception, person, meeting, brain, intelligence, and so on. (2023-03-20) |
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Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
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Keyword
| metonymy
trope
Nigeria
constructional metonymy
Hausa |
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Related Publication
| Tsakuwa, Mustapha Bala, Wen, Xu and Lamido, Ibrahim. "A chained metonymic approach to ίdὸ ‘eye’ constructional metonymies in Hausa". Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 34, no. 2, 2023, pp. 165-196. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2022-0007 doi 10.1515/cog-2022-0007 https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2022-0007 |
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Language
| English |
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Producer
| Yulin University (YLU) https://www.yulinu.edu.cn/
Southwest University (SWU) https://www.swu.edu.cn/
Federal University of Kashere (FUK) https://fukashere.edu.ng/ |
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Production Date
| 2022-01-20 |
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Production Location
| Hausaland (Nigeria) |
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Contributor
| Data Collector: Tsakuwa Family Members
Data Collector: Yakasai, Hafizu Miko
Data Curator: Andreassen, Helene N. |
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Distributor
| The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) (TROLLing) https://trolling.uit.no/ |
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Depositor
| Tsakuwa, Mustapha Bala |
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Deposit Date
| 2023-03-20 |
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Time Period
| Start Date: 2021-02-20; End Date: 2022-01-20 |
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Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2021-02-20; End Date: 2022-01-20 |
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Data Type
| native-speaker intuition data; observational data; elicitation data |
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Other Reference
| Almajir, Tijjani Shehu. 2013. The polysemy of body part terms in Hausa within the frame of image schemas. Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures 47. 93–111.; Caron, Bernard. 2013. Hausa grammatical sketch. In Amina Mettouchi, Martine Vanhove \& Do-Minique Caubet (eds.), The CorpAfroAs corpus: A corpus for Afro-Asiatic languages. ANR: CorpAfroAs.; Crysmann, Berthold. 2010. Resumption and island-hood in Hausa. In Formal grammar, 50–65. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.; CSNL. 2006. Kamusun Hausa na Cibiyar Nazarin Harsunan Najeriya, Jami’ar Bayero Kano \[Hausa Dictionary by Centre for the Study of Nigerian Languages, Bayero University Kano]. Zaria: Ahmadu Bello University Press Ltd.; Inuwa, Yusuf Nuhu. 2017. Bitar ma’anar kalmar ‘Hausa’ a karni na 21: Al’umma; harshe; azanci; kasa; nazari \[Revisiting the term ‘Hausa’ in the 21st century: Society; language; wisdom; motherland; studies]. Paper presented at the International Hausa Culture Festival on Contribution of Hausa Culture to the Enlightenment of African Civilization, National Museum, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 14th – 16th April.; Newman, Paul. 2000. The Hausa language. An encyclopedic reference grammar. New Haven: Yale University Press.; Robinson, Charles Henry D. 2014\[1913]. Dictionary of the Hausa language. Hausa-English, 3rd edn. Revised and Enlarged. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.; Skinner, Neil. 2007. Kamus na Turanci da Hausa \[English-Hausa illustrated dictionary]. Zaria: The Northern Nigerian Publishing Company.; The Leipzig Glossing Rules. (2015). Conventions for interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses. https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.php; Tikau, Abubakar Idris, Ibrahim Yusuf, Malam Kariya Gambo, Umaru Manu Karofi, Dauda Mamu, Rifkatu I. Bumi \& Russell G. Schuh (eds.). 2009. Karekare, English-Hausa dictionary, 2nd edn. Potiskum: Yobe Languages Research Project. Ajami Press. |
