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Home > Archives > BLS 20: Special Session on Historical Issues in African Linguistics

Table of Contents

Table of Contents and Preface BLS Editors

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Articles

On Reconstructing the Syntagm S-Aux-O-V-Other to Proto-Niger-Congo Orin D. Gensler

PDF 1-20

A Diachronic Approach to Classes 10 and 11 in Bantu With Special Reference to North-Western Languages Claire Grégoire

PDF 21-34

On the Genesis of Aspect in African Languages: The Proximative Bernd Heine

PDF 35-46

A Neglected Ethiopian Contribution to Semitic and Afroasiatic Reconstruction Grover Hudson

PDF 47-56

From Focus Marker to Copula in Swahili John McWhorter

PDF 57-66

Restructuring, Feature Selection, and Markedness: From Kimanyanga to Kituba Salikoko S. Mufwene

PDF 67-90

The Nature and Size of Linguistic Contact Possible in Three Centuries Derek Nurse

PDF 91-100

The Origin of Leftward Tone Shift in Masasi Chiyao David Odden

PDF 101-111

The Historical Development of Secondary Articulation in Gurage Sharon Rose

PDF 112-124

The Dynamics of Morphotactic Change in Sango William J. Samarin

PDF 125-138

Diphthongization in the Refal Dialect of Lama Charles H. Ulrich

PDF 139-149