JALL
Vol. 20, No. 1

Volume 20, Number 1. Walter Bisang and Remi Sonaiya on the functional motivation of the high tone syllable in Yorùbá; Michael Cahill on diphthongization in Kɔnni; Katherine Demuth and Carolyn Harford on verb raising and subject inversion in Bantu relatives. The review section runs to ten, including Nicholas Faraclas on Suanu M. Ikoro’s The Kana Language, David Dwyer on Faraclas’s own Nigerian Pidgin, and Ben O. Elugbe on Jan P. Sterk’s Gade-English Dictionary.