The syntactic functions of weak verbal nouns in Hausa

Abstract

Wannan maƙala ta gabatar da tunanin rarraba sunaye ’yan aikatau. Masanan harshen Hausa suna kiransu sunaye ’yan aikatau masu dafa-ƙeya -'wâ. Na nuna cewa ma’anarsu ta ƙamus ba ta dace da ma’anar ta ƙirar jimla ba. Ko da yake sigarsu ɗaya ce, wato duk daga cikinsu suna da ɗafa-ƙeya -'wâ, irin wannan siga ba kullum take ɗauke da ma’ana ɗaya kawai ba. Ana yin amfani da su wajen ginin harshe dabam-dabam. Suna yin aikin sunaye ko mubtada ko ganga. Akwai abubuwa guda biyu waɗanda suke fahimtar aikinsu da ma’anarsu — tsarin jumloli nasu da kuma kalmomin da suka kewaya su, wato kalmomi da suka mulki kamar zaruffa, ɓangaren mallaka, siffofi da mafayyata

Keywords

• weak verbal nouns
• Hausa language
• syntax
• nominalization
• morphology
• syntactic functions