Volume 20, Number 2 · 1999
JALL
Vol. 20, No. 2
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
About this Issue
Volume 20, Number 2. Torben Andersen on vowel quality alternation in Mabaan and its Western Nilotic history; Thomas Bearth on the contribution of African linguistics to a general theory of focus; Tom Güldemann on the ka-possessive in southern Nguni. Reviews by Arvi Hurskainen, Raimund Kastenholz, Frederik Kortlandt and Maarten Kossmann, the last two on Orel and Stolbova’s Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary.