Editors’ foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors’ foreword vii
4. I. Morphosyntax
5. Conceptual issues in the comparative study of the Bantu verb stem 3
6. Ewe verbs in derivation and in periphrastic constructions 35
7. Les procédés répétitifs en kikongo 45
8. Clitic climbing in BAntu 67
9. The Yoruba serial verb construction 79
10. La négation en gbaya ‘bodoe 103
11. II. Semantics
12. Names and horofic pronouns in Gborbo Krahn 119
13. Luo names 131
14. Time-stability 141
15. On the typological character of property concepts in Emai 159
16. III. Phonology
17. Verb structure and tone in Chiyao 179
18. On the reduced nasal phoneme of manding 191
19. IV. Language contact
20. Language variation and change in pervasively multilingual societies 207
21. Building the frame in codeswitching 253
22. Phonological similarities between Sango and its base language 279
23. Can language plannign work? Theory versus practice in Africa 293
24. Author index 301
25. Language index 305