This interface provides on-line access to my nascent Grammar of Hausa, distributed under an open source licence. Using facilities of the LKB development platform, the PET parser, the [incr tsdb()] profiling and Redwoods treebanking tools, the interface allows one to input one sentence at a time, analyze it using the HaG, and visualize analysis results in various forms.

Currently features:

Flexible treatment of tone/length annotation

Full (e.g. "Állàh yà gáafàrtà máalàm")

High tone marked (e.g. "Állah ya gáafarta máalam")

Low tone marked (e.g. "Allàh yà gaafàrtà maalàm")

None (=standard orthography)

Conventions are automatically inferred from the input.

Most TAM categories (Completive, continuative, future, subjunctive, potential, rhetorical) affirmative and negative, absolute and relative

A few rules to cover some of the 15+ plural patterns. Plural classes 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, and 9

A treatment of frame alternation (verbs and verbal nouns).

Unified treatment of the genitive linker (possessive, adjectives, verbal nouns)

Basic relative clauses and wh clauses

Bound and free determiners

This on-line version, for the time being, only has access to the hand-built HaG lexicon (of some 260 lexemes. Please be prepared to accomodate some vocabulary restrictions. Clicking the Sample button will activate a random selection from a test suite.

Hooked letters (ɓ, ɗ, ƙ) can be typed in either directly, or using letter-apostrophe combinations (b', d', k'). Tone and length marking must be consistent across the entire sentence (none, length only, high/low-only, full tonal marking). Marking of tone implies marking of length.