@article{110166,
  address          = {Amsterdam/Philadephia},
  author           = {Abdoulaye, Mahamane Laoualy},
  journal          = {Studies in Language},
  number           = {2},
  pages            = {235-275},
  publisher        = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
  title            = {Passive and grammaticalization in Hausa},
  url              = {https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.24.2.02abd},
  volume           = {24},
  year             = {2000},
  abstract         = {Hausa uses a (...)LH-u verbal morphology to derive (i) typical passive forms with an optional intensive/completive meaning, and (ii) some non-passive verbs with an obligatory intensive meaning and which are based on intransitive verbs. After a detailed description of the two forms, I propose that originally, the (...)LH-u morphology was only applied to intransitive middle verbs to derive intensive forms. Later however, the (...)LH-u morphology was grammaticalized and applied to transitive verbs to derive passive forms. I will show that the Hausa passive has continued its grammaticalization process, weakening its intensive and stative semantics, and allowing non-patient nominals to be passive subjects. This analysis implies that previously, Hausa had no passive, and this fits with the general situation in Chadic languages where indeed passive is a rare construction.},
  citekeys         = {cldf3:6078},
  doi              = {10.1075/sl.24.2.02abd},
  inlg             = {English [eng]},
  isreferencedby   = {cldf3},
  issn             = {0378-4177},
  keywords         = {;waf;ngr;nga;lng;grm;rcn;x.511a;},
  lgcode           = {[haus1257]},
  macro_area       = {Africa},
  src              = {benjamins, cldf, eballiso2009, weball, zurich},
  subject_headings = {naf, waf, ngr, nga, lng, grm, rcn, x.511a},
  zurichcode       = {Hausa [HUA]}
}