JALL
Vol. 23, No. 2

Volume 23, Number 2, opening with an editorial note and corrigenda. It carries a posthumous paper by Thomas L. Cook (1943–2001) on focus in Efik, together with Gerrit J. Dimmendaal on disharmony in Nilotic, Thilo C. Schadeberg on progress in Bantu lexical reconstruction, and John M. Stewart on Proto-Potou-Akanic-Bantu as a pilot Proto-Niger-Congo. Bernard Caron reviews Paul Newman’s The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar.