Hausa coordinators

Hausa conjoins noun phrases with the free word dà before the second conjunct, gidā dà mōtā 'a house and a car', and often before the first as well, dà Bellò dà Mūsā 'both Musa and Bello', as Newman gives them. The same word is the comitative preposition 'with', the source from which Haspelmath derives the coordinator, citing Schwartz's data.

Main definitions

• Hausa.Coordination.da: the conjunctive coordinator.

References

• [Has07]
• [New00]
• [Sch89]

def Hausa.Coordination.da : Coordinator

dà 'and', also the comitative preposition 'with', Hausa.Adpositions.da.

Equations

• Hausa.Coordination.da = { morph := Morphology.Morph.free "dà", gloss := "and", role := Coordinator.Role.conjunctive }