2004
X, 575 pp.
3 maps, 3 b/w photos, numerous tables and charts, appendix
Text language: English
CONTENTS
I. PLENARY PAPERS
Ben Elugbe / Tayo Bankale:
Cognation Percentages in Benue-Congo – Implications for Internal Classification
Larry Hyman:
Why Describe African Languages?
H. Ekkehard Wolff:
Segments and Prosodies in Chadic – On Descriptive and Explanatory Adequacy, Historical Reconstructions, and the Status of Lamang-Hdi
II. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
Oluseye Adesola:
Coda Deletion in the Yoruba Loan Phonology
Akinbiyi Akinlabi / Alexander Iwara:
Transparency and Opacity in Lokaa Vowel Harmony
Michael Cahill:
Marked Tones and Texture – The Necessity of High Tones in Konni
Bruce Connell:
Pitch Realization of Questions and Statements in Mambila
Yoshihito Dobashi:
Phonological Phrasing in Sandawe
Laura J. Downing:
Constraint and Complexity in Subsegmental Representations
Alexander Iwara:
The Grammatical Function of Tone on Lokaa
III. MORPHOLOGY, SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS
Rose O. Aziza:
Negation in Southwestern Edoid – The Case of Urhobo
Christa Beaudoin-Lietz / Derek Nurse / Sarah Rose:
Pronominal Object Marking in Bantu
Stefan Elders:
Distributed Predicative Syntax in Doyayo – Constituent Order Alternations and Cliticization
Zygmunt Frajzyngier / Mohammed Munkaila:
Point of View of the Subject as a Grammatical Category
Jason Kandybowicz:
Predicate Clefts, Derivations, and Universal Grammar
Roland Kiessling:
“The giraffes burst throw emerge climb pass through the roof of the hut.” Verbal Serialisation in the West Ring Languages (Isu, Weh, Aghem)
Zelealem Leyew:
The Cardinal Numerals of Nilo-Saharan Languages
Michael R. Marlo:
Prefixal Reduplication in Lusaamia – Evidence from Morphology
Philip W. Rudd:
“Haya, Basi” – “Okay so” Markers of Management and Interaction in Swahili Conversation
Josephat M. Rugemalira:
Locative Arguments in Bantu
Ken Safir:
On Person as a Model for Logophoricity
Ronald P. Schaefer / Francis O. Egbokhare:
Emai Contact Constructions – Beyond Verbs in Series
Helga Schröder:
The Relevance of Verbal Morphology in Toposa Discourse
Anne Storch:
Traces of a Secret Language – Circumfixes in Hone (Jukun) Plurals
Weldu Michael Weldyesus:
Locative Predication in Tigrinya
IV. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Tunde Adegbola:
Probabilistically Speaking – A Quantitative Exploration of Yorùbá Speech Surrogacy
Rachélle Gauton / Gilles-Maurice de Schryver / Linkie Mohlala:
A Corpus-based Investigation of the Zulu Nominal Suffix -kazi – A Preliminary Study
Wanjiku Nganga:
Automatic Word Sense Disambiguation – Kiswahili Nouns
V. HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
Koen Bostoen:
The Vocabulary of Pottery Fashioning Techniques in Great Lakes Bantu – A Comparative Onomasiological Study
Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche:
Reconstruction of Initial Velar and Labial-Velar Consonants at the Pre-Lower Cross-Igboid-Yoruboid-Edoid Stage of Benue-Congo
Henry Tourneux:
Évolution morphologique et syntaxique du parler des jeunes Kotoko de Goulfe (Cameroun)
Kay Williamson:
Implosives in Mande-Atlantic-Congo
VI. SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Bertrade B. Ngo-Ngijol Banoum:
Bantu Gender Revisited through an Analysis of Basaá Categories – A Typological Perspective
Herman M. Batibo:
The Role of the External Setting in Language Shift Process – The Case of the Nama-Speaking Ovaherero in Tshabong
Paul D. Fallon:
The Best is Not Good Enough – Scouring a Previously Documented Language for More
Aurélia Ferrari:
Le sheng – Expansion et vernacularisation d’une variété urbaine hybride à Nairobi
Hélène Fatima Idris:
The Status and Use of African Languages versus Arabic in Sudan – A Sociolinguistic Survey in Nyala, Darfur
H.R.T. Muzale:
Developing a Language in a Complex Situation – Prospects and Challenges of Tanzanian Sign Language
Francis O. Oyebade / T.O. Agoyi:
The Endangered Status of Marginalised Languages – Sosan and Ùkuè as Case Study
Solomon Oluwole Oyetade:
Language Endangerment in Nigeria – Perspectives with the Akpes Cluster of Akoko Languages
Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter:
Contact de langues au Brésil – Les langues africaines et le portugais brésilien
Eno-Abasi E. Urua:
Language Marginalization – The Lower Cross Experience