JWAL
Vol. XXX, No. 2

Volume XXX, Number 2, 2004 — the special number promised in the previous issue, given over entirely to papers from the Leipzig Symposium on Areal Typology 2000, edited by Bernard Comrie and H. Ekkehard Wolff. Felix K. Ameka opens on the grammaticalization of triadic communication in West African languages; G. Tucker Childs sets the Atlantic and Mande groups of Niger-Congo against each other; Bernard Comrie writes on West African logophorics and the typology of reference-tracking; Zygmunt Frajzyngier on tense and aspect as coding means for information structure; Larry M. Hyman asks how to become a ‘Kwa’ verb; R. Nicolai on the Sahelo-Saharan space and questions of Sprachbund; Valentin Vydrine on areal and genetic features in West and South Mande phonology; and KAY WILLIAMSON of the University of Port Harcourt closes the volume with typical vowel systems and processes in West African Niger-Congo languages.