Böcker i Publications in African Languages and Linguistics-serien

Frontmatter -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Tone -- Tonal Influence on Vocalic Quality -- Tone and Grammar in Akan. The Tone of Possessive Constructions in the Asante Dialect -- The Analysis of Falling Tones in Ghotu? -- The Autosegmental Representation of Tones in Akan: more Evidence for the Tone Mapping Rule with Reference to Baule -- The Tonal Phonology of Siya (a Central-Togo Language) and the Historical Significance of its Major Functions -- Tone in the CiRuri Present Continuous -- The Representation of Multiple Tone Heights -- Downglide, Floating Tones and Non-WH Questions in Ga and Dangme -- Contour Tones as Phonemic Primes in Grebo -- The Igbo Associative and Specific Constructions -- Vowel Harmony -- The Chameleonic Vowel in the Harmonizing Prefixes of Efik -- On Neutral Vowels -- Vowel Harmony in Tunen -- Segment Structure Rules -- The Evaluation of Segment Structure Conditions through the Explicit Statement of their Logical Implications -- A Note on Segment Inventories, Redundancy Conditions and A-Rules -- Miscellaneous -- Syllabification and Epenthesis in the Barra Dialect of Gaelic -- Phonetic Features -- The Development of Nasalized Vowels in the Teke Language Group (Bantu)

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I. AREAL AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- 1. Some Areal Characteristics of African Languages -- 2. Adamawa-Eastern: Problems and Prospects -- 3. The Eastern Jebel Languages -- 4. Noun Class Prefixes in Proto-Edoid -- 5. Ijo's Closest Linguistic Relative -- II. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY -- 6. The Phonetics of Zu/'hoasi, a Khoisan Dialect of South West Africa/ Namibia -- 7. Nasal Vowels and Nasalized Consonants in Gbe -- 8. The Hierarchical Representation of Tone Features -- 9. Tone in the Verbal System of Anyi -- 10. Tone Rules and Derivational History in Edo Phonology -- 11. The Analysis of Tone in Acholi, Luo and Lango -- 12. Ewe and the Theory of Tone Spreading -- 13. Accent in Tonga: an Autosegmental Account -- 14. The Asante Twi Tone Shift -- III. LEXICAL STRUCTURE -- 15. Manding Lexical Behavior in Sierra Leone Krio -- 16. The Ideophone as a Phonosemantic Class: the Case of Yoruba -- 17. A Lexical Treatment of Cairene Arabic Object Clitics -- 18. A Prosodic Account of Arabic Broken Plurals -- IV. SYNTAX -- 19. Anaphora, Cataphora, and Topic Focusing: Functions of the Object Prefix in Swahili -- 20. The Complex Structure Conspiracy and the Grammar of Mandingo Complementation -- List of Contributors

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- General -- 1. On the Nominal Morphology of "Alienability" in Some African Languages -- 2. Asymmetrical Syntax and Symmetrical Morphology in African Languages -- Afroasiatic -- 3. Long Vowels and Diphthongs in Miya and Hausa -- 4. Phrases and Phrase Tones in Hausa -- 5. On the Nature of Topicalization in Hausa -- 6. Final Vowels and Grammatical Marking in Oromo -- 7. The Copula in Oromo -- 8. The Case of U in Tigre: Towards an Extended Theory of Phonological Government -- Niger-Kordofanian -- 9. Wh-Movement and Proper Government in Yoruba -- 10. Typological Mixture in the Lexicalization of Manner and Cause in Emai -- 11. The Extra-High Tone of Kisi: Just Another Tone or a New System of Prominence? -- 12. Tone and Accent in the Xhosa Verbal System -- 13. Double Object Constructions in KiRimi -- 14. Kiswahili Agreement for Kinship Terms -- 15. Levels of Semantic Structuring in Bantu Noun Classification -- Nilo-Saharan -- 16. Arusa (Maa) Phrasal Tonology -- Creoles -- 17. An Account of the Serial Verbs in Haitian Creole: Argument Structure Coalescence -- 18. Topics in Liberian English Modality

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Table of Contents -- I. Areal and Historical -- 1. Vestiges de suffixes de classes nominales dans les langues du groupe Boua -- 2. Noun class affix renewal in Southern West Atlantic -- 3. The expansion of the Gusii tense system -- 4. Le Rwanda et sa langue -- 5. The influence of African languages on pidgins and Creoles -- II. Phonetics and Phonology -- 6. Geminate Consonants in Luganda -- 7. La construction associative en bété de gbadi -- 8. A reanalysis of tone in Mende -- 9. Accent tonal en Kinyarwanda -- 10. Pour un traitement synchronique de la faille tonale -- 11. Are there syllables in Gokana? -- 12. La règle d'élision syllabique et les séquences vocaliques en guère -- 13. Accent in Kimatuumbi -- 14. Le système tonal du moba comparé à celui du gurma -- III. Syntax -- 15. La topicalisation en yoruba -- 16. Wh-questions and island constraints in Kikuyu: a reanalysis -- 17. Wh-in-situ constructions in Egyptian Arabic -- 18. The applied suffix in Kikuyu -- 19. Bete reciprocals and Clitic binding -- IV. Semantics, Morphology and the Lexicon -- 20. Dynamique et Équilibre du Système des Pronominaux Possessifs en Banda-linda -- 21. The tense system in Ibibio -- 22. Noun class assignment of English loanwords in Kikuyu -- 23. Some nouns and noun phrases in Nzema -- 24. Du statut des "concordial elements" dans les langues bantu -- 25. Spécificité de l'Adverbe en Gbaya "bodoe"