Volume 15, Number 1, opening with an editorial note. Suanu M. Ikoro on numeral classifiers in Kana, and David J. Dwyer on tone splitting in Bobo. Felix K. Ameka, Gilbert Puech, Rudolf P. Gaudio, Mary M. Clark, Edith L. Bavin, Okoth Okombo and Jeff Siegel supply the reviews — Gaudio on the MacIntyre and Meyer-Bahlburg Hausa media lexicon, Siegel on Rajend Mesthrie’s English in Language Shift.