Topics in Chadic linguistics

CONTENTS Ari Awagana: La pluralité verbale en buduma Roger M. Blench: Why Reconstructing Comaparative Ron is so Problematic Véronique de Colombel: Grammaticalisation et ordre des unités dans dix langues du groupe tchadique-central Amedeo De Dominicis: Tone or Pitch Accent in Masa? Dymitr Ibriszimow / Victor Porkhomovsky: Towards a Typology of Kinship Terms and Systems in Afro-Asiatic (Hamito-Semitic) Mohammed M. Munkaila: Morphological Causative and Indirect Object Interface in Hausa Henry Tourneux: Le système consonantique des langues dites ' kotoko ' H. Ekkehard Wolff: Predication Focus in Chadic Languages