JWAL
Vol. XXIV, No. 1

Volume XXIV, Number 1, May 1994, under Robert Hedinger. BRUCE CONNELL opens with a prolegomena to the classification of the Cross River languages, taking up the Lower Cross group he would return to in JALL the following year; Gordon Williams on intelligibility and language boundaries among the Cangin peoples of Senegal; P. E. EJELE on liquid elision in word-final syllables in Esan; Ngessimo M. Mutaka on tonal features in Yabassi; Samson Negbo Abangma on case assignment in Denya; Edmond Biloa on passive incorporation and clause structure; and Paul Neeley on discourse peak and poetic closure in the final stanza of a talking drum performance. W. A. A. Wilson contributes a note on tag answers in Dagbani, and Mutaka reviews Mufwene and Moshi’s Topics in African Linguistics.