Table of Contents

1. Editors' foreword; 2. I. Morphosyntax; 3. Conceptual issues in the comparative study of the Bantu verb stem (by Hyman, Larry M.); 4. Ewe verbs in derivation and in periphrastic constructions (by Allen, Andrew S.); 5. Les procedes repetitifs en kikongo: le redoublement et la reduplication (by Ngalasso, Mwatha Musanji); 6. Clitic climbing in BAntu (by Biloa, Edmond); 7. The Yoruba serial verb construction: a complex or simple sentence? (by Lawal, S. Adenike); 8. La negation en gbaya 'bodoe (by Roulon-Doko, Paulette); 9. II. Semantics; 10. Names and horofic pronouns in Gborbo Krahn (by Bing, Janet); 11. Luo names: reference and meaning (by Blount, Ben G.); 12. Time-stability: the case of adjectives in kiVunjo-Chaga (by Moshi, Lioba); 13. On the typological character of property concepts in Emai (by Schaefer, Ronald P.); 14. III. Phonology; 15. Verb structure and tone in Chiyao (by Mtenje, Al); 16. On the reduced nasal phoneme of manding (by Tourville, Jose); 17. IV. Language contact; 18. Language variation and change in pervasively multilingual societies: Bantu languages (by Bokamba, Eyamba G.); 19. Building the frame in codeswitching: evidence from Africa (by Myers-Scotton, Carol); 20. Phonological similarities between Sango and its base language: is Sango a pidgin/creole or a koine? (by Pasch, Helma); 21. Can language plannign work? Theory versus practice in Africa (by Richmond, Edmund B.); 22. Author index; 23. Language index