Ali Usman Umar: Hausa Lexical

A STUDY OF SOME HAUSA LEXICAL
COLLOCATIONS: A HYPOTHETICAL OVERVIEW

Tijjani Shehu Almajir, PhD
Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages
Bayero University, Kano
almajir02@yahoo.com

Ali Usman Umar
Translation Unit – NCA Department
Kano State Radio Corporation
+234 706 375 8416
alusumshariff@gmail.com

Abstract

Collocational information and its patterns are said to be language specific. 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.

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