BLS 20: Special Session on Historical Issues in African Linguistics

• 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

  1-20

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

  Claire Grégoire

  21-34

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• On the Genesis of Aspect in African Languages: The Proximative

  Bernd Heine

  35-46

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• A Neglected Ethiopian Contribution to Semitic and Afroasiatic Reconstruction

  Grover Hudson

  47-56

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• From Focus Marker to Copula in Swahili

  John McWhorter

  57-66

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• Restructuring, Feature Selection, and Markedness: From Kimanyanga to Kituba

  Salikoko S. Mufwene

  67-90

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• The Nature and Size of Linguistic Contact Possible in Three Centuries

  Derek Nurse

  91-100

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• The Origin of Leftward Tone Shift in Masasi Chiyao

  David Odden

  101-111

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• The Historical Development of Secondary Articulation in Gurage

  Sharon Rose

  112-124

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• The Dynamics of Morphotactic Change in Sango

  William J. Samarin

  125-138

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• Diphthongization in the Refal Dialect of Lama

  Charles H. Ulrich

  139-149

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