2000
X, 791 pp.
8 maps, 59 illustrations, 7 diagrams, numerous tables
Text languages: English, French
CONTENTS
Editors’ Note
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Mohamed H. Abdulaziz:
Some Issues of Concern in the Linguistics of African Languages
Ayo Bamgbose:
African Language Use and Development – Aspirations and Reality
Paul Newman:
Writing a Reference Grammar of an African Language – Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Kay Williamson:
Towards Reconstructing Proto-Niger-Congo
I. LANGUAGE IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
Steve Barrett / Eugene H. Casad:
What they say and what they do
Nikolai Dobronravin:
Hausa, Songhay and Mande Languages in Nigeria – Multilingualism in Kebbi and Sokoto
Okon Essien:
What is in a Name? A Linguistic and Cultural Explication of Ibibio Personal Names
Philip A. Noss:
“Language of the Streets” and Editorial Commentary in Cameroon
Lolke Van der Veen:
Étude de la dénomination des troubles pathologiques en Afrique centrale bantoue
II. LANGUAGE IN TIME AND SPACE
Roger Blench:
Revising Plateau – Recent Research on the Languages of Central Nigeria
France Cloarec-Heiss:
Mesures dialectales en 3 dimensions – application à une aire dialectale hétérogène, l’aire banda
Bruce Connell:
The Integrity of Mambiloid
Djita Issa Djarangar:
Essai de classification des langues sara
Edgar E. Gregersen:
Some Thoughts on Afro-Dravidian
B. Akíntúndé Oyètádé/ Malami Buba:
Hausa Loan Words in Yorùbá
Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle:
Situation linguistique dans le sud de l’Erythrée
III. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY
Akinbiyi Akinlabi / Eno Urua:
Tone in Ibibio Verbal Reduplication
Yiwola Awoyale:
The Phonological Structure of Yoruba Ideophones
Denis Creissels:
A Domain-Based Approach to Setswana Tone
Catherine Labroussi:
Spirant-Devoicing and Genetic Classification in Eastern Bantu
Robert Nicolaï:
Voyelles nasales ou consonnes aspirées nasales en songhay (approche de la marginalité)
Knut J. Olawsky:
Tone Patterns and Morphology in Dagbani – The Prosodic Structure of Nouns
Kenneth S. Olson / Brian E. Schrag:
An Overview of Mono Phonology
John R. Watters:
Tone in Western Ejagham (Etung) – The Case of Lexical and Postlexical Tone on Nouns
IV. GRAMMAR AND LEXICON
Mahaman Bachir Attouman:
L’opposition occurrence ouverte / occurrence fermée à travers le système aspectuel du hawsa
Jasmina Bonato:
Surprise! Surprise! How the Future Tense is Used to Mark Dramatisation in Twi (Akan) Narrative Discourse
Sonja E. Bosch:
On the Conceptualization of Possession in Zulu
Malami Buba:
On the Deictic Features of Speaker-Based Hausa Demonstratives
Michael J.C. Echeruo:
The Igbo Verb and the Lexicon
Rachélle Gauton:
Locative Noun Classes in Bantu – The Case for Recognizing Two Additional Locative Noun Class Prefixes
Peter Gottschligg:
Subject Choice of Applicative Verbs in North-Atlantic
Gerald Heusing:
Defective Double Object Constructions in Lamang (Central Chadic)
John P. Hutchison:
Predicate Focusing Constructions in African and Diaspora Languages
Peter Kalchofner:
Stative Verbs in Twi (Akan)
