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In:Topics in African Linguistics: Papers from the XXI Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Georgia, April 1990
Edited by Salikoko S. Mufwene and Lioba Moshi
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 100] 1993
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 7 October 1993
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Table of contents

Editors’ forewordvii
I. Morphosyntax
Conceptual issues in the comparative study of the Bantu verb stem3
Ewe verbs in derivation and in periphrastic constructions35
Les procédés répétitifs en kikongo: le redoublement et la réduplication45
Clitic climbing in BAntu67
The Yoruba serial verb construction: a complex or simple sentence?79
La négation en gbaya ‘bodoe103
II. Semantics
Names and horofic pronouns in Gborbo Krahn119
Luo names: reference and meaning131
Time-stability: the case of adjectives in kiVunjo-Chaga141
On the typological character of property concepts in Emai159
III. Phonology
Verb structure and tone in Chiyao179
On the reduced nasal phoneme of manding191
IV. Language contact
Language variation and change in pervasively multilingual societies: Bantu languages207
Building the frame in codeswitching: evidence from Africa253
Phonological similarities between Sango and its base language: is Sango a pidgin/creole or a koiné?279
Can language plannign work? Theory versus practice in Africa293
Author index310
Language index305
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