Review of "A Grammatical Outline of Gùrdùŋ/Gùrùntùm", by Andrew Haruna

Bernard Caron (1)

1 LLACAN - Langage, LAngues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire

With his Grammatical outline of Gùrdùŋ, Andrew Haruna (A.H.) has published the first grammar of a South-Bauchi Chadic West-B language. This type of work, concerning a minority language spoken in Bauchi State (Northern Nigeria) and dominated by Hausa, is highly welcome and should be emulated. Despite serious shortcomings, A. H.'s work is worth commending. It provides a good quantity of data, consistently transcribed and reasonably well analysed. The author's aims is to provide a description of the essential aspects of Gùrdùŋ (G.), focusing on the description of the verbal and nominal systems in the present-day form of the language.

Keywords: linguistics; African languages; Chadic; South-Bauchi; Guruntum

Keywords: linguistique; langues africaines; tchadique; Sud-Bauchi

Domains: Linguistics

Bernard Caron. Review of "A Grammatical Outline of Gùrdùŋ/Gùrùntùm", by Andrew Haruna. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2007, 28 (1), pp.79-82. ⟨halshs-00645241⟩