Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics Leipzig 1997

CONTENTS:

Editors' Note

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Abdulaziz, Mohamed H.:
Some Issues of Concern in the Linguistics of African Languages

Bamgbose, Ayo:
African Language Use and Development - Aspirations and Reality

Newman, Paul:
Writing a Reference Grammar of an African Language - Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Williamson, Kay:
Towards Reconstructing Proto-Niger-Congo

I. LANGUAGE IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY:
Barrett, Steve / Casad, Eugene H.:
What they say and what they do

Dobronravin, Nikolai:
Hausa, Songhay and Mande Languages in Nigeria - Multilingualism in Kebbi and Sokoto

Essien, Okon:
What is in a Name? A Linguistic and Cultural Explication of Ibibio Personal Names

Noss, Philip A.:
"Language of the Streets" and Editorial Commentary in Cameroon

Van der Veen, Lolke:
Étude de la dénomination des troubles pathologiques en Afrique centrale bantoue

II. LANGUAGE IN TIME AND SPACE:

Blench, Roger:
Revising Plateau - Recent Research on the Languages of Central Nigeria

Cloarec-Heiss, France:
Mesures dialectales en 3 dimensions - application à une aire dialectale hétérogène, l'aire banda

Connell, Bruce:
The Integrity of Mambiloid

Djarangar, Djita Issa:
Essai de classification des langues sara

Gregersen, Edgar E.:
Some Thoughts on Afro-Dravidian

Oyètádé, B. Akíntúndé / Buba, Malami:
Hausa Loan Words in Yorùbá

Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude:
Situation linguistique dans le sud de l'Erythrée

III. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY:
Akinlabi, Akinbiyi / Urua, Eno:
Tone in Ibibio Verbal Reduplication

Awoyale, Yiwola:
The Phonological Structure of Yoruba Ideophones

Creissels, Denis:
A Domain-Based Approach to Setswana Tone

Labroussi, Catherine:
Spirant-Devoicing and Genetic Classification in Eastern Bantu

Nicolaï, Robert:
Voyelles nasales ou consonnes aspirées nasales en songhay (approche de la marginalité)

Olawsky, Knut J.:
Tone Patterns and Morphology in Dagbani - The Prosodic Structure of Nouns

Olson, Kenneth S. / Schrag, Brian E.:
An Overview of Mono Phonology

Watters, John R.:
Tone in Western Ejagham (Etung) - The Case of Lexical and Postlexical Tone on Nouns

IV. GRAMMAR AMD LEXICON:

Attouman, Mahaman Bachir:
L'opposition occurrence ouverte /occurrence fermée à travers le système aspectuel du hawsa

Bonato, Jasmina:
Surprise! Surprise! How the Future Tense is Used to Mark Dramatisation in Twi (Akan) Narrative Discourse

Bosch, Sonja E.:
On the Conceptualization of Possession in Zulu

Buba, Malami:
On the Deictic Features of Speaker-Based Hausa Demonstratives

Echeruo, Michael J. C.:
The Igbo Verb and the Lexicon

Gauton, Rachélle:
Locative Noun Classes in Bantu - The Case for Recognizing Two Additional Locative Noun Class Prefixes

Gottschligg, Peter:
Subject Choice of Applicative Verbs in North-Atlantic

Heusing, Gerald:
Defective Double Object Constructions in Lamang (Central Chadic)

Hutchison, John P.:
Predicate Focusing Constructions in African and Diaspora Languages

Kalchofner, Peter:
Stative Verbs in Twi (Akan)

Kießling, Roland:
Verb Classes in Nilotic - Evidence from Datooga (Southern Nilotic)

Koopman, Adrian:
Morphological Interference in Bantu Adoptives

Kulemeka, Andrew Tilimbe:
The Ideophone Predicate - A Case of Verbless Sentences in Chichewa

Mickala-Manfoumbi, Roger:
Les noms complexes en punu (B43)

Naït-Zerrad, Kamal:
Auxiliaires Temporels en Berbère

Nicolle, Steve:
The Swahili Object Marker - Syntax, Semantics and Mythology

Oyètádé, B. Akíntúndé:
The Verb 'go' in Àkókó Yorùbá

Roulon-Doko, Paulette:
La polysémie du terme nÁ en gbaya 'bodoe

Schaefer, Ronald P. / Egbokhare, Francis:
Emai Preverb Order

Tourneux, Henry:
La formation du pluriel en kotoko

Uwalaka, Sr.:
Parasitic Gaps Revisited

Vanhove, Martine:
Notes sur les verbes statifs en afar de Tadjoura (Djibouti)