Selected works
• 1977. With Roxana Ma Newman. Modern Hausa-English Dictionary / Sabon Kamus Na Hausa Zuwa Turanci. Ibadan, Nigeria: Oxford University Press. • 1980. The Classification of Chadic within Afroasiatic. Leiden: Universitaire Pers Leiden. • 1990. Nominal and Verbal Plurality in Chadic. Dordrecht: Foris. • 1995. ''On Being Right: Greenberg's African Linguistic Classification and the Methodological Principles Which Underlie It.'' Bloomington: Institute for the Study of Nigerian Languages and Cultures, African Studies Program, Indiana University. • 2000. The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. New Haven: Yale University Press. • 2001. With Martha Ratliff (editors). Linguistic Fieldwork. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. • 2002. Chadic and Hausa Linguistics: Selected Papers of Paul Newman, with Commentaries, edited by Philip J. Jaggar and H. Ekkehard Wolff. Köln: Rudiger Köppe Verlag. • 2004. ''Klingenheben's Law in Hausa.'' Köln: Rudiger Köppe Verlag. • 2007. A Hausa–English Dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press. • 2022. A History of the Hausa Language. Reconstruction and Pathways to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ==References==