JWAL
Vol. XVII, No. 2

Volume XVII, Number 2, November 1987 — dedicated to the memory of PROF. ROBERT G. ARMSTRONG, whose paper on the Idomoid languages appeared in the journal four years earlier. The editorial tribute records that for over twenty-five years “Bob” Armstrong did more than anyone in the 1960s to stimulate interest in African languages, that the West African Language Congresses and the Society itself are indebted to his vision and initiative, and that from his first fieldwork among the Idoma he not only analysed the language but learnt to speak and write it — returning to the Idoma dictionary at the end of his life, in poor health and after major operations, and dying among the Idoma people “to whom he had come to belong”. A second tribute, to Father André Prost, closes the issue. The articles: ỌLADELE AWOBULUYI towards a typology of coalescence; AKINBIYI AKINLABI and FRANCIS OYEBADE on lexical and postlexical rule application in vowel deletion in Yorùbá; Hélène Boëthius on basic mood in Ifè; Florence Dolphyne on negating the consecutive verb in Akan; Beban Sammy Chumbow on nasality in Ogberia; Jules Kinda, with a note on his article by Tony Naden; and Kathrin Brückner on the particle of contrast in Waama. The same note announces the Eighteenth West African Languages Congress at Niamey, March 1988.