Advances in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics

Proceedings of the 8th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Hamburg, August 22–25, 2001

Edited by: Doris L. Payne, Mechthild Reh. With contributions by: Václav Blažek, Roger M. Blench, Pascal Boyeldieu, Michael Bryant, Niels Christiansen, Regula Christiansen, Achim Diehl, Leoma Gilley, Gumma Ibrahim Gulfan, Jan Henrik Holst, Piet Huttenga, Muhammed Abbaker Ismail, Roland Kießling, Constance Kutsch Lojenga, Doris Löhr, Robert Guy McKee, Cynthia L. Miller, Moges Yigezu, Claude Rilly, Fedor Rozhanskiy, Anne Storch, Rainer Voßen, Doris Weiss, Petr Zima †, Joost Zwarts. Series edited by: M. Lionel Bender †, Franz Rottland †, Norbert Cyffer.

Series: NISA Nilo-Saharan – Studies in Language and Context Volume 22

CONTENTS

Editorial Preface

Václav Blažek: Nilo-Saharan Stratum of Ongota

Roger Blench: Further Evidence for a Niger-Saharan Macrophylum

Pascal Boyeldieu: Compound Verbs and Modalities of Process in Yulu (Central Sudanic)

Michael Bryant: -Ni as a Marker of Discourse Resolution in Tirmaga

Niels and Regula Christiansen: Tadaksahak Verb Morphology with Reference to Berber and Songhay Origins

Achim Diehl: The Effect of a Floating Stress Feature with Certain Toneless Morphemes in Me'en

Jan Henrik Holst: Nilotic and Eastern Sudanic Phonology in a Wider Perspective

Gumma Ibrahim / Piet Huttenga: The Phoneme System of Tagle, a Kordofanian Nubian Language

Muhammed Abbaker Ismail: Noun Classes in Daju Lagawa and the Role of Stress

Roland Kießling: Space and Reference in Datooga Verbal Morphosyntax

Constance Kutsch Lojenga: Coreference in Ngiti

Doris Löhr: Nigerian Kanuri (Sub-) Dialects Reconsidered – A Corpus-based Approach

Robert Guy McKee: Concerning Meegye and Mangbetu’s Bilabial Trills

Cynthia L. Miller / Leoma G. Gilley: Evidentiality and Mirativity in Shilluk

Claude Rilly: The Earliest Traces of Meroitic

Fedor Rozhanskiy: Morphology and Phonology of Noun Paradigms in Songhay

Anne Storch / Rainer Voßen: Odours and Colours in Nilotic – Comparative Case Studies

Doris Weiss: Maba Verb Root and Pronouns

Moges Yigezu: The Phonetics and Phonology of Majang Vowels – a Historical-Comparative Perspective

Petr Zima: Songhay – a Language at the Periphery and Crossroads of Language Families and Areas

Joost Zwarts: Number in Endo-Marakwet

The following conference proceedings of Nilo-Saharan linguistics colloquia have been published in the same series:

Accompanying material:

• Actes du Cinquième Colloque de Linguistique Nilo-Saharienne / Proceedings of the Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, Nice, 24–29 August 1992 (ISBN 978-3-927620-72-8)
• Current Research in Nilo-Saharan (ISBN 978-3-89645-669-4)
• Insights into Nilo-Saharan Language, History and Culture (ISBN 978-3-89645-660-1)
• Motion in Datooga (ISBN 978-3-89645-668-7)
• Nilo-Saharan – Models and Descriptions (ISBN 978-3-89645-665-6)
• Nilo-Saharan Issues and Perspectives (ISBN 978-3-89645-667-0)

Cross-reference:

• A Dictionary of the Nandi Language (ISBN 978-3-89645-134-7)
• A Grammar of Belanda Boor (ISBN 978-3-89645-664-9)
• A Grammar of Koyraboro (Koroboro) Senni (ISBN 978-3-89645-106-4)
• A Grammar of Tadaksahak (ISBN 978-3-89645-931-2)
• A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (ISBN 978-3-89645-098-2)
• Aktuelle Forschungen zu afrikanischen Sprachen (ISBN 978-3-89645-401-0)
• Anywa Language (ISBN 978-3-927620-73-5)
• Anywa-English and English-Anywa Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-132-3)
• From Oral Literature to Video (ISBN 978-3-89645-579-6)
• La force des choses ou l’épreuve ‘nilo-saharienne’ (ISBN 978-3-89645-099-9)
• Texts in Koroboro Senni (Songhay of Gao, Mali) (ISBN 978-3-89645-261-0)
• Texts in Koyra Chiini (Songhay of Timbuktu, Mali) (ISBN 978-3-89645-260-3)
• The Fur Verb and its Context (ISBN 978-3-89645-663-2)
• The Noun Morphology of Western Nilotic (ISBN 978-3-89645-139-2)

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