Name index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Future tense and aspect marking in Southern Bantu 1
5. The marking of directional deixis in Somali 13
6. A typology of subject and object markers in African languages 43
7. Head marking, dependent marking and constituent order in the Nilotic area 71
8. Agent phrases in Bantu passives 93
9. Grammaticalization of switch reference 113
10. Complex predicates based on generic auxiliaries as an areal feature in Northeast Africa 131
11. The OHO constraint 155
12. The word in Luganda. 171
13. Case in Africa 195
14. The typology of relative clause formation in African languages 209
15. Deictic categories in particles and demonstratives in three Gur languages 229
16. Preprefix or not — that is the question 251
17. Nonverbal and verbal negations in Kabyle (Berber) 263
18. Grammaticalization chains of the verb Kàre ‘to give’ in Kabba 277
19. Selectors in Cushitic 303
20. How Bantu is Kiyansi? 327
21. Diathesis alternation in some Gur languages 337
22. Structure and function of incorporation processes in compounding 361
23. Toward a typological perspective for Emai’s BE constructions. 377
24. Intrinsic focus and focus control in two varieties of Hausa 397
25. Language index 417
26. Name index 421
27. Subject index 425