Current approaches to Adamawa and Gur languages

INHALT: Raija Kramer & Roland Kießling: Introduction – Current Approaches to Adamawa and Gur Languages Klaus Beyer: Coding the presentational function in Pana (Gur) – How pragmatics explains Variation Raymond Boyd: Monosemy and polysemy in description and reconstruction Pascal Boyeldieu, Raimund Kastenholz, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer & Florian Lionnet: The Bua Group languages (Chad, Adamawa 13) – A comparative perspective Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn: Relative clauses in Syer (Western Karaboro, Senufo, Gur) Dmitry Idiatov & Mark Van de Velde: The tone system of Bena-Yungur Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer: The northern fringe of the Jos Plateau, a prehistorical contact zone of Benue-Plateau and Adamawa-Gur languages – The evidence of the cultural vocabulary Raija Kramer: The clause-final marker ɓɐ in Fali (Adamawa) – Between Polarity and Orientation Gudrun Miehe: Imperatives in Gur languages – Evidence from Cerma, Kãasa and Jãane Holger Tröbs: Some notes on the TAM system of Jeli Kerstin Winkelmann: The basic structure of tense and aspect systems in Gur languages