Non-verbal sentences in Hausa include identificational, equational, and existential sentences. These will be introduced in affirmative, negative, and interrogative constructions. Students will be able to practice these constructions using a controlled list of common words for things, people, and occupations in the classroom context.

Roxana Ma Newman earned a doctorate in linguistics at UCLA writing up a case grammar of a small Chadic language named Ga'anda. After spending a total of six years in northern Nigeria doing research and teaching, primarily on Hausa linguistics and lexicography, she taught general linguistics at the University of Leiden, and at Indiana University, Bloomington. Currently she is a research associate of the African Studies Program at Indiana University. She is the author of An English-Hausa Dictionary (1997).