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Hypotheses on the Development of the Akan Language Group
Abakah Emmanuel Nicholas


The Place of Ika, Ikwere, and Izii-Ezaa-Ikwo-Mgbo Dialects of Igbo in the reconstruction of Proto-Igbo: Data from the IADP Corpus
Achebe Ike & Eme Cecilia Amaoge


Re-classification of Abesabesi (Akpes) as Edoid
Agoyi Taiwo Opeyemi


S/TAM/P morphs (portmanteau subject/TAM/polarity morphs) in Niger-Congo languages
Anderson Gregory


Towards a comparative description of the Adamawa languages of Mumuye-Yendang and Leko-Nimbari groups: A preliminary analysis of the field data
Anikina Tatiana & Lyakhovich Anastasia & Zheltov Alexander


Jukunoid negation particles: special emphasis on Yukuben
Anyanwu Rose-Juliet


A Comparative Phonology of the Olùkùmi, Igala, Owe and Yoruba Languages
Arokoyo Bolanle Elizabeth


Niger-Congo Person Markers: Testing the Kinship with Morphology
Babaev Kirill


Reconstructing personal pronouns in Gur
Babaev Kirill


Kikongo dialect continuum: internal and external classification
Bostoen Koen


Les langues du groupe Boua (Adamawa-13 de J.H. Greenberg)
Boyeldieu Pascal


Le Gbe comme un groupe de langues mixtes? son apport à la reconstruction du Proto Kwa et du Proto Benoué-Congo
Capochichi Sandro


Proto-Senufo noun phrase syntax and noun morphology
Carlson Robert


Synthesis before the Proto-Niger-Congo inflectional verb: Evidence from the peripheral South Atlantic languages
Childs G. Tucker


Ijoid in Niger-Congo: A review of the evidence
Connell Bruce


Pronoun systems as evidence for language history: Personal pronouns in Mambiloid
Connell Bruce


Towards a phonology of Proto-Kwa: onwards from Stewart’s “Potou-Akanic-Bantu
Dakubu Mary Esther


Trees, waves, and magnets? The role of language ideologies in Benue-Congo diversification
Di Carlo Pierpaolo & Good Jef


Comparative Akedoid and West Benue-Congo
Elugbe Benjamin


Dogon classification
Heath Jefferey & Prokhorov Kirill


Proto-Bantu : Before and After
Hombert Jean-Marie & Grollemund Rebecca


Reconstructing Proto-Bantoid Morphology: An appraisal
Hyman Larry


Metric foot in Mande languages
Khachaturyan Maria


Sama-Duru, a core group of Central Adamawa: An appraisal of its lexicon and noun class system
Kleinewillinghöfer Ulrich


Overview of noun classes in Gur (II) (revised and enlarged version)
Kleinewillinghöfer Ulrich & Miehe Gudrun & Von Rocador Manfred & Winkelmann Kerstin


On the nature of Final and Initial Vowels in Niger-Congo languages.
Monich Irina


Is Ubangian Branch a family among Niger-Congo languages?
Moñino Yves


Tonologies des langues bantoues congolaises et problemes de filiation genealogique
Montigea Mangulu André


Towards a Syntactic Reconstruction of Proto-Mande
Nikitina Tatiana


Aspect and tense in Niger-Congo
Nurse Derek


Reconstructing the Igbo Cluster
Ohiri-Aniche Chinyere


Is Ubangi a part of Niger-Congo? The case of Prothesis in Banda
Olson Kenneth S.


The Arigidi Cluster: an Internal Re-classification
Oshodi Boluwaji


L’étude comparative de six langues « sere-ngbaka-mba » dans une perspective de reconstruction d’une protolangue et de proposition d’inférences de contacts historiques
Paulin Pascale


On the position of South Atlantic languages
Pozdniakov Konstantin


Consonant inventories and consonant systems in Eastern Bantu languages: complexity patterns, universals and diachrony
Philippson Gérard


Heibanian and Talodian (Kordofanian) : a comparative approach
Quint Nicolas


Why Ukaan is hard to classify?
Salffner Sophie & Sands Bonny


From proto-Joola to proto-Bak: steps towards proto-(Northern-) Atlantic
Segerer Guillaume


Lexicostatistics in Africa and its role in the reconstruction of Proto-Niger-Congo.
Starostin George


Towards Proto-Mande
Vydrin Valentin


Towards the reconstruction of tense and aspect in early Bantoid.
Watters John


Kru Revisited, Kru Revealed
Zogbo Lynell Marchese