Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I. AREAL AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS -- 1. Some Areal Characteristics of African Languages -- 2. Adamawa-Eastern: Problems and Prospects -- 3. The Eastern Jebel Languages -- 4. Noun Class Prefixes in Proto-Edoid -- 5. Ijo's Closest Linguistic Relative -- II. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY -- 6. The Phonetics of Zu/'hoasi, a Khoisan Dialect of South West Africa/ Namibia -- 7. Nasal Vowels and Nasalized Consonants in Gbe -- 8. The Hierarchical Representation of Tone Features -- 9. Tone in the Verbal System of Anyi -- 10. Tone Rules and Derivational History in Edo Phonology -- 11. The Analysis of Tone in Acholi, Luo and Lango -- 12. Ewe and the Theory of Tone Spreading -- 13. Accent in Tonga: an Autosegmental Account -- 14. The Asante Twi Tone Shift -- III. LEXICAL STRUCTURE -- 15. Manding Lexical Behavior in Sierra Leone Krio -- 16. The Ideophone as a Phonosemantic Class: the Case of Yoruba -- 17. A Lexical Treatment of Cairene Arabic Object Clitics -- 18. A Prosodic Account of Arabic Broken Plurals -- IV. SYNTAX -- 19. Anaphora, Cataphora, and Topic Focusing: Functions of the Object Prefix in Swahili -- 20. The Complex Structure Conspiracy and the Grammar of Mandingo Complementation -- List of Contributors