Kaye Jonathan, Koopman Hilda, Sportiche Dominique, Dugas André (Eds.). Current Approaches to African Linguistics: Volume 2

Foris Publications, 1983. — 392 p.This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 13th Annual Conference on African Linguistics held at the University of Quebec at Montreal (U.Q.A.M.) on April 29 - May 2, 1982, the first such conference to be held outside the United States. These proceedings document the increasing participation at this conference by Africanists from several continents: Africa, North America, Europe. The selections, which offer a representative sample of papers given at that meeting, illustrate a variety of approaches both in content as well as method, and reflect the diverse interests and formation of the participants.Areal and HistoricalVestiges de suffixes de classes nominales dans les langues
du groupe Boua - P. Boyeldieu
Noun class affix renewal in Southern West Atlantic - Tucker Childs
The expansion of the Gusii tense system - John Kingston
Le Rwanda et sa langue - Léon Mugesera
The influence of African languages on pidgins and Creoles - John Victor SinglerPhonetics and PhonologyGeminate consonants in Luganda - Toni Borowsky
La construction associative en bété de gbadi - Monik Charette
A reanalysis of tone in Mende - Patrick Conteh, Elisabeth Cowper, Deborah James, Keren Rice and Michael Szamosi
Accent tonal en Kinyarwanda - Rutinywa Furere et Annie Rialland
Pour un traitement synchronique de la faille tonale - Gladys Guarisma
Are there syllables in Gokana? - Larry M. Hyman
La règle d'élision syllabique et les séquences vocaliques en
guère - Carole Paradis
Accent in Kimatuumbi - Douglas Pulleyblank
Le système tonal du moba comparé à celui du gurma - Annie RiallandSyntaxLa topicalisation en yoruba - B. R. Badejo
Wh-questions and island constraints in Kikuyu:
a reanalysis - Victoria L. Bergvall
Wh-in-situ constructions in Egyptian Arabic - Michael Kenstowicz and Wafaa Wahba
The applied suffix in Kikuyu - Kiyoko Masunaga
Bete reciprocals and Clitic binding - Dominique SporticheSemantics, Morphology and the LexiconDynamique et equilibre du systeme des pronominaux possessifs en banda-linda - France Cloarec-Heiss
The tense system in Ibibio - Okon E. Essien
Noun class assignment of English loanwords in Kikuyu - Elanah J. Kutik
Some nouns and noun phrases in Nzema - William R. Leben
Du statut des "concordial elements" dans les langues bantu - A. Lipou
Spécificité de l'Adverbe en Gbaya "bodoe" - Paulette Roulon