Edited by: Matthias Brenzinger, Anne-Maria Fehn. With contributions by: Martial Embanga Aborobongui, Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Neville Alexander †, Adelino Amargira, Ogbonna Anyanwu, Rose-Juliet Anyanwu, Gratien G. Atindogbé, Samuel A. Atintono, Mimboabe Bakpa, Herman M. Batibo, Jean-Marc Beltzung, James G. Bennett, William Bennett, Wolfgang Berndt, Thomas Blecke, Olivier Bondéelle, Marie-Laure Bonson Kozi, Nadine Borchardt, Koen Bostoen, Matthias Brenzinger, Solomija Buk, G. Tucker Childs, Ibrahima A.H. Cissé, Alexander Cobbinah, Bruce Connell, Carole de Féral, Daniel Duke, Yamina El Kirat El Allame, Inoma Essien, Ines Fiedler, Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Maik Gibson, Richard Gravina, Christopher R. Green, Andrew Haruna, Beatrix von Heyking, Osamu Hieda, Andreas Joswig, Roland Kießling, Heidrun Kröger, Oliver Kröger, Nancy C. Kula, Christiane Lauschitzky, Seunghun J. Lee, Sam Lutalo-Kiingi, Friederike Lüpke, Lutz Marten, Marieke Martin, Rezenet Moges, Salikoko S. Mufwene, Abdel Rahim Hamid Mugaddam, Dame Ndao, Ozo-mekuri Ndimele, Ayu’nwi N. Neba, Lukas Neukom, Britta Neumann, Peter Nichols, Russell Norton, Ebitare Obikudo, Helma Pasch, Tristan Michael Purvis, Annie Rialland, James S. Roberts, Andrij Rovenchak, Adjaratou Oumar Sall, Coffi Sambiéni, Bonny Sands, Gertrud Schneider-Blum, Helga Schröder, Doreen Schröter, Gabriele Sommer, Margarida Maria Taddoni Petter, Mauro Tosco, Nathalie Vallée, Rebecca Voll, John R. Watters, Klaus Wedekind, H. Ekkehard Wolff.
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Language and poverty in Africa – Do language policies help or hinder poverty reduction?
Can tone shift be regarded as tone depression in Shisukuma?
The suffix -ɗo in Kenga – Ventive and past, one or two functions?
The volume has been edited and graphically designed in an exemplary fashion, like the other volumes with proceedings of the World Congresses of African Linguistics. It is worth recollecting that Rüdiger Köppe Verlag monopolised the editorial work of all the WOCAL congresses, with the exception of the Special 6th World Congress of African Linguistics in Sao Paulo (2008), which was dedicated to exploring the African Language connection in the Americas. The merit of Köppe’s editorial house for African linguistics is of highest rank as it carefully and painstakingly documents the most important events in this field of scientific research.