Linguistics across Africa

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The content includes a diverse range of studies focusing on African languages and cultures. Rudolf Leger and Rainer Vossen explore themes relevant to Africa. Rose-Juliet Anyanwu examines information structure in various West African Benue-Congo languages, while Alan Barnard questions whether the first language was a Khoisan language. Sebastian K. Bemile discusses proverbs and universal thought, and Andy Chebanne provides an update on the sociolinguistic and linguistic situations of Eastern Kalahari Khoe languages in Botswana. Abdourahmane Diallo investigates phonological approximations among informal French speakers. Gerrit Dimmendaal analyzes word-final voicing contrasts in Nilotic languages, and Edward Elderkin looks at historical stress correlates in ‖Ani. Anne-Maria Fehn revisits tense and aspect in the Khoe language family, and Jost Gippert studies sound systems in diachrony. Tom Güldemann questions the existence of a cardinal number paradigm in Proto-Tuu. Osamu Hieda discusses “prefix-like” elements in Nilotic. Dymitr Ibriszimow and colleagues explore Hausa “zumunci” from a cognitive semantic perspective. Herrmann Jungraithmayr examines “impossible” equations in Chadian languages, while Christa Kilian-Hatz follows the pygmies’ trail. Bernhard Köhler addresses the foundations of language typology, and Christa König and Bernd Heine analyze discourse markers in !Xun. Karsten Legère updates on the Il-Torobo language in Tan