KWATANCIN GININ KALMAR HAUSA DA NA BADANCI

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The research is designed to highlight some major areas in word formation, between Hausa and Bade languages. It is also based on contrastive analysis, where the similarities and dissimilarities are examined. Both primary and secondary sources of data are used for the research. The primary source includes a series of interviews in some Bade communities, while the secondary source includes lexicographic works in both languages and library materials. The research is limited to derivation and inflectional morphology. It found out that adverbs are not derived to or from any lexical category in Bade language unlike in Hausa. Similarly, the research confirmed that adjectives are not pluralized in Bade. It also confirmed that Hausa has linguistic influence on Bade language, in the uses of ma- bound morpheme, in deriving agential nouns, ma-makan→mámáakáan (seeker); instrumental nouns, ma-saviyan→ másáavéyáan (havesting tools); and locative nouns, ma-cakudan→ mácákúdáan (threshing floor) all from verb stems.