Topics in Chadic linguistics

INHALT Preface / Préface Ari Awagana: La lexicographie du buduma – une étude exploratoire Sergio Baldi / Rudolf Leger: Some diachronic observations on gender and number in Bole-Tangale Languages Václav Blažek: Chadic “BROTHER” and “SISTER” Roger Blench: Mwaghavul pluractional verbs Richard Gravina: The internal classification of Chadic Biu-Mandara Birgit Hellwig: Lexical aspect classes in Goemai (West Chadic) Dymitr Ibriszimow / Balarabe Zulyadaini: Fighting friends with the scent of a bride – Wives, ‘family’ and ‘relatives’ in Hausa from a cognitive semantic point of view Marit Lobben: Agreement and relative topicality in the -aC causative / caused-motion and benefactive constructions in Hausa Doris Löhr: Belante zela áte yáwe ‘sending an eagle up to water’ – Multiword expressions in Malgwa Adam Mahamat: Les differents types de contes dans la litterature orale des Kotoko de Makari Maria Schubert: Means of Transport – The concept of vehicle for L1 and L2 Hausa speakers Gábor Takács: The “Chadic Lexical Roots” and their Afro-Asiatic background II Henry Tourneux: La contribution de Heinrich Barth à la lexicographie du parler kotoko de Logone-Birni