JWAL
Vol. XXVIII, No. 1

Volume XXVIII, Number 1, 2000/2001, with an editorial note signed by Ngessimo M. Mutaka. Four papers on phonology, three on syntax and one on morphology. Stephen Dettweiler on vowel harmony and neutral vowels in C’Lela, a Benue-Congo language of Nigeria; W. A. A. Wilson on vowel harmony in Bijagó; Mutaka on imbrication and reduplication in Kinande; Michael Cahill on noun classes and phonology in Kɔnni. The syntax papers cover two Edoid languages of Nigeria and one Atlantic — Grace Emuekpere-Masagbor on functional categories and verb movement in Ivie, P. E. Ejele on tense markers in Esan, and Kirsten A. Fudeman on contrastive focus in the Ganja dialect of Balanta. Engelbert Domché-Téko writes on the locative in Ghomala’. The issue also carries AYO BAMGBOSE’s squib “New Directions in West African Language Studies”, the text he gave at the closing session of the biennial WALS congress at Legon in August 2000, where 72 papers were read and a new executive elected under Florence Dolphyne.