JALL
Vol. 18, No. 1

Volume 18, Number 1. Katherine Demuth and Sheila Mmusi on presentational focus and thematic structure in comparative Bantu, and Anthony Traill and Rainer Vossen on sound change in the Khoisan languages, with new data on click loss and click replacement. Orin D. Gensler contributes a review article on grammaticalization, typology and Niger-Congo word order, “a still-unsolved problem”. Reviews by Giorgio Banti and Richard J. Hayward, and a notice by Suanu M. Ikoro of Language in Nigeria: Essays in honour of Ayọ Bamgboṣe, edited by Kọla Owolabi.