This is the most comprehensive survey ever published of auxiliary verb constructions, as
in'he could have been going to drink it'and'she does eat cheese'. Drawing on a database of …

For quite some time, the genealogical classification of African languages has been in a
peculiar situation, one which is linked intricably to Greenberg's (1963a) study. His work is …

The present electronic document is a completely new edition of 'An Index of Nigerian
Languages' by David Crozier and Roger Blench (1992), which in turn replaced Keir …

This innovative handbook takes a fresh look at the currently underestimated linguistic
diversity of Africa, the continent with the largest number of languages in the world. It covers …

Книга посвящена сравнительному анализу систем личного маркирования в языках
нигеро-конголезской макросемьи–крупнейшего генетического объединения языков …

The Eleme language of south-eastern Nigeria exhibits a complex system of inflectional
morphology. In this study, which is the first detailed investigation into the morphosyntactic …

One of the distinctive features of the Niger-Congo family of languages of Sub-Saharan Africa
is the existence of large noun class systems. These noun class systems are probably best …

This paper is the second and last part of a comparative analysis of person marking systems
in Benue-Congo (BC) languages, started in (Babaev 2008, available online for reference) …

The Eleme locative‐applicative= is a non‐canonical applicative that demonstrates
morphosyntactic properties commonly associated with clitics. It is employed in one of two …

This thesis presents a study of the phonology of Eleme. It aims at describing the Eleme
sound system in a way that is accessible and useful to phonologists and other linguists …