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| Name: | Paul Newman |
| Institution: | Indiana University Bloomington |
| Email: | click here to access email |
| State and/or Country: |
IN USA |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Historical Linguistics Language Documentation Lexicography Forensic Linguistics Genetic Classification |
| Subject Language(s): |
Hausa |
| Selected Publications: |
On Being Right: Greenberg's African Linguistic Classification and the Methodological Principles which Underlie It. 1995.
Hausa and the Chadic Language Family: A Bibliography. (African Linguistic Bibliographies, 6.) 1996. The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. 2000. (editor, with Martha Ratliff) Linguistic Fieldwork. 2001. Chadic and Hausa Linguistics: Selected Papers of Paul Newman, with Commentaries. 2002. Klingenheben's Law in Hausa. 2004 A Hausa-English Dictionary. 2007 (forthcoming, Yale University Press) 'Are ideophones really as weird and extra-systematic as linguists make them out to be?' in Ideophones. 2001. (with Roxana Ma Newman). 'The Hausa lexicographic tradition,' Lexikos. 2001. 'The endangered languages issue as a hopeless cause,' in Language Death and Language Maintenance. 2003. 'Comparative Chadic revisited,' in West African Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Russell G. Schuh. 2006. |
| Announced on LINGUIST : |
Linguistic Fieldwork |
| Reviewed on LINGUIST : |
Linguistic Fieldwork Linguistic Fieldwork |
| Courses Taught: |
Historical linguistics
Field methods Language & law Freedom of speech in the U.S. Copyright law |
| Dissertation Director * of: |
The Reconstruction of Proto-Mongolian *p-
(Karl Krippes, Author) |
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