JWAL
Vol. XXVI, No. 2

Volume XXVI, Number 2, October 1996/97 — another double-dated cover from the years the journal ran behind. It opens with Aaron Shryock, Peter Ladefoged and KAY WILLIAMSON on the phonetic structures of Defaka, one of the last collaborations between Ladefoged’s UCLA phonetics laboratory and Williamson’s Port Harcourt fieldwork. Raymond Boyd on Chamba Daka classification; MICHAEL EDOABASI EKERE on tone patterns in Ibibio noun phrase structures; Z. D. Bitjaa Kody and Ngessimo M. Mutaka on the locative in Bantu A; Deborah L. Buchanan on the Munukutuba noun class system; UCHE AARON on the grammaticization of the verb ‘say’ to future tense in Obolo; Edmund Biloa on agreement and verb movement in Ewondo; and R. A. MASAGBOR on Ivie folk poetry — Masagbor being Ronald Schaefer’s co-author on North Ibie a decade earlier.