"The following 18 papers developed from contributions to the 31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at Boston University 2-5 March 2000"--P. v.
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Contents
After Asmara : the future of literature and scholarship in Africa / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o -- Focus constructions across Kwa / Enoch Ọládé Aboh -- On the syntax of nominalization in Ẹ̀dó and Yorùbá / O. Ajíbóyè, R-M. Déchaine, O. Stewart -- Wh-phrases and complementizers in Yoruba : evidence for a multi-layered C-system / Ọdúntàn Bọ̀dè -- Tonal polarity in Ko̳nni / Mike Cahill -- L'impact du français sur l'enseignement primaire au Burkina Faso / Issa Diallo, John Hutchison -- Bukusu reduplication / Laura J. Downing -- Gĩkũyũ orthography : past and future horizons / Chege Githiora -- Dagbani verb tonology / Larry M. Hyman & Knut J. Olawsky -- Faithfulness and markedness in Benue-Congo loan phonology / Ahmadu Ndanusa Kawu -- On the obligatory presence of object marking in Swahili relative clauses / Camillia N. Keach -- The perfective aspect and consonant mutation in Bantu languages / Alexandre Kimenyi -- Life as a journey metaphor in Kinyarwanda / Alexandre Kimenyi -- Oral vowels in nasalization contexts in Anyi : implications for orthography / Ettien Koffi -- A unitary description of the interpretations of ChiShona applicatives / Patricia Mabugu -- Applied intransitive verbs in Isizulu / Lolie Makhubu -- Dholuo/English codeswitching : evidence for a composite grammatical frame / Funila Ochola -- Bantu complex predicates, grammatical functions, and the Thematic Hierarchy / Silvester Ron Simango.