Professor Philip J. Jaggar
Professor of West African Linguistics
After taking African studies as an undergraduate Philip Jaggar took an MPhil in social anthropology (both at SOAS). He then switched to linguistics and took an MA and PhD at UCLA, writing a discourse-based dissertation on Hausa (1985). He has taught Hausa language/linguistics at Bayero University College, Kano, Nigeria (1973-76), Universität Hamburg, Germany (1976-78), UCLA (1978-83), and SOAS (1983-). His research has focussed primarily on the empirical description of Hausa but he has also worked on other Chadic languages. He has worked with Dr Andrew Haruna (SOAS, Berlin) on Guruntum, a small and virtually unknown West Chadic-B language currently under threat from Hausa; Dr Haruna is a native speaker of Guruntum and is the only Nigerian linguist working on minority languages in North East Nigeria.
Recent publications:
2002, Jaggar, Philip, with H. Ekkehard Wolff. Chadic and Hausa Linguistics: The selected papers of Paul Newman with Commentaries. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.
Jaggar, Philip, 2001, Hausa. London Oriental and African Language Library 7 (Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins)
Jaggar, Philip, 1996, Hausa Newspaper Reader Maryland: Dunwoody Press
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