African linguistics at the crossroads

CONTENTS: I. HISTORICAL, COMPARATIVE & TYPOLOGICAL: Bernd Heine: Grammaticalization Theory and Its Relevance for African Linguistics Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Bidirectionality of Grammaticalization Antoine Lipou: Mixed Languages and Bantu Historical Linguistics Irina N Toporova: Typology and the Bantu Noun Classes Ulrike Claudi: Some Thoughts on the Origin of Gender Marking Tom Güldemann: Prosodic Subordination as a Strategy for Complex Sentence Construction II. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY: Anthony Traill: Linguistic Phonetic Features for Clicks David Odden: Domains and Levels of Representation in Tone Georges Hérault: Syllabic Genesis and Luganda Phonology III. SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS: Sam A. Mchombo: Contributions of African Languages to Generative Grammar Josephat M. Rugemalira: The Upper Limit Constraint on Argument Structures M. Lynne Murphy: Agreement as Non-Directional – An Approach to Bantu Concord Mayrene Bentley: Variation in Bantu Verbal Agreement Henny Broekman: African Languages and Syntactic Generation Marianna Visser: The Thematic Structure of Event Nominals in Xhosa Andrew van der Spuy: Syntactic Traces in Zulu Ronald P. Schaefer: Talmy’s Schematic Core and Verb Serialization in Emai – An Initial Sketch J. A. du Plessis: The Semantics of Ergative Constructions in Zulu and Xhosa Andrew Tilimbe Kulemeka: The Grammatical Category of Chichewa Ideophones IV. INTERACTIONAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS: Margaret Akinyi Obondo: On Ways of Retelling – The Narrative Syntax of Urban Luo Children Robert K. Herbert: The Meaning of Language Choices in South Africa J. Keith Chick: ‘One Settler, One Bullet’ and other Provocations Zofia Podobínska: La politesse – les comportements linguistiques adoptés par des locuteurs de swahili au cours des actes de “Mande” V. LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING: Ben Ohi Elugbe: Literacy and Language Development in Nigeria Adams B. Bodomo: Linguistics, Education and Politics – An Interplay on Ghanaian Languages Armando Jorge Lopes: Language Policy in Mozambique – A Taboo? Jan Blommaert: Ideology and Language in Tanzania – A Brief Survey Kahombo Mateene: Le “Plan d'Action Linguistique pour l’Afrique” Alfred J. I. Matiki: The Politics of Language in Malawi Renato Matusse: The Future of Portuguese in Mozambique Livingstone Walusimbi: The Future of Minority Languages in Uganda VI. LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL STUDIES: Elena Bertoncini-Zúbková: Swahili Verbs in Modern Fiction Edgar A. Gregersen: The Pragmatics of Verbal Abuse in African Languages Jan Davies / Greville Corbett: Colour Categories in African Languages Ellen Contini-Morava: Noun Classification in Swahili Arvi Hurskainen: A Language Sensitive Approach to Information Management and Retrieval