JWAL
Vol. XXX, No. 1

Volume XXX, Number 1, 2003. Six articles and three reviews, and the issue where the journal’s three working languages are most visible — papers in English and French sit side by side. Daniel F. Idiata traces the nominal classes of Isangu (Gabon) contracting over time; Caesar A. Akuetey argues that the Ewe verb zu does not by itself mark a change of state; P. E. Ejele returns with aspectual contrasts in Esan; M. M. Munkaila sets out to disprove the assumption that double object verbs in Hausa are identical to indirect object verbs; Gillian F. Hansford distinguishes proverbial competence, cultural knowledge and situational competence in Chumburung (Ghana), where two different words for proverb turn out to be literal and metaphoric; and Nazam Halaoui analyses nominal syntagms in Soninke (Mauritania). H. Ekkehard Wolff reviews Hunter and Oumarou on Hausa verbal art. The editorial note announces that the next issue will be given over to the Leipzig Symposium on Areal Typology 2000.