Research Catalog

Title

Issues in African languages and linguistics : essays in honour of Kay Williamson / edited by E. ʼNọlue Emenanjọ & Ozo-mekuri Ndimele.

Publication

Aba : National Institute for Nigerian Languages, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Emenanjọ, E. Nọlue.
• Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri.
• Williamson, Kay.

Description

vii, 397 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

• Ninlan book series
• Nigerian language studies

Subjects

• Africa > Languages
• African languages
• Williamson, Kay
• African philology

Note

• Special issue of the Nigerian language studies--Cf. t.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Kay R.M. Williamson : a biographical profile and list of publications / E.N. Emenanjo and Ozi-mekuri Ndimele -- Vowel deletion or vowel coalescence : a problem in Yoruba phonology / Ayo Bamgbose -- Metatony in Benue-Congo / Gerrit Dimmendaal -- Some phonological inferences from an Izon word game / Emmanuel E. Efere -- Voiceless approximants in Tee / Peter Ladefoged -- A new approach to tones in associative constructions : insights from Kana / Suanu M. Ikoro -- Vowel neutralization in Hausa / Ismail Junaidu -- ATR harmony in Kalabari Ijo / Akinbiyi Akinlabi -- Some elements of Lokaa phonology revisited / A.U. Iwara -- The phonemes of Ibibio revisited Okon E. Essien --On the phonosyntactic dimension of negation / Ozo-mekuri Ndimele -- ̣Òkà-Àkókó phonology and its implications for Proto-Yoruba consonant reconstructions / Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche -- Preliminary historical inferences from Ịjọ loan words in Delta Edoid languages / Shirley Donwa-Ifode -- Pronouns in language classification : a case study of East Ịjọ / Otelemate G. Harry -- Implosive, homorganic nasals and nasalized vowels in Volta-Congo / John M. Stewart -- Object diagnostics in Bantu / Thilo C. Schadeberg --Topic, focus and move-alpha in Igbo / P. Akụjụọobi Nwachukwu -- Double-determiner NP constructions in Hausa / A.H. Amfani -- Nominal prefixes in Koló-Ọgbịa / Caroline Isukul -- Thematic configurationality and serialverb [sic] constructions / Jeffrey S. Gruber -- Igbo nominal compounds : fact or fiction? / B.O. Oluikpe and G.I. Nwaozuzu -- Case assignment in Mwaghavul, Tiv and Metta (Utah) / George T. Teke -- The strong boundary condition for compounds : the Igbo perspective / Philip N. Anagbogu -- The semantics of negation / P.E. Ejele -- A re-analysis of the so-called Igbo de-sentential nominals / M.C. Ọnụkawa --The resumptive pronoun strategy in Igbo / M.A. Uwalaka -- NP-comparison in Hausa / A. Mohammed -- Rivers Readers Project : Kay Williamson and the development of minority languages / E.J. Alagoa -- The Niger-Congo diaspora / Robin Horton -- Tarok ophresiology : an investigation into the Tarok terminology of odours / Roger Blench and Selbut R. Longtau -- Beyond the Rivers Readers' Project / E. Nọlue Emenanjọ -- Linguistic complexity in Rivers State : the position of language use in primary schools / Abigail F. Afiesimama -- Stylistic innovation in Cameroonian French / Philip A. Noss -- Formal symmetries in the Nembe kinship semantic field / Omen N. Maduka-Durunze.

Call Number

Sc D 96-1464

ISBN

9782494062

OCLC

• 37625729
• 35597264

Title

Issues in African languages and linguistics : essays in honour of Kay Williamson / edited by E. ʼNọlue Emenanjọ & Ozo-mekuri Ndimele.

Imprint

Aba : National Institute for Nigerian Languages, 1995.

Series

Ninlan book series

Nigerian language studies

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Emenanjọ, E. Nọlue.

Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri.

Williamson, Kay.

Research Call Number

Sc D 96-1464