CONTENTS: I. HISTORICAL, COMPARATIVE & TYPOLOGICAL - Bernd Heine: Grammaticalization Theory and Its Relevance for African Linguistics. Zygmunt Frajzyngier: Bidirectionality of Grammaticalization. Antoine Lipou: Mixed Languages and Bantu Historical Linguistics. Irina N. Toporova: Typology and the Bantu Noun Classes. Ulrike Claudi: Some Thoughts on the Origin of Gender Marking. Tom Güldemann: Prosodic Subordination as a Strategy for Complex Sentence Construction. II. PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY - Anthony Traill: Linguistic Phonetic Features for Clicks. David Odden: Domains and Levels of Representation in Tone. Georges Hérault: Syllabic Genesis and Luganda Phonology. III. SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS - Sam A. Mchombo: Contributions of African Languages to Generative Grammar. Josephat M. Rugemalira: The Upper Limit Constraint on Argument Structures. M. Lynne Murphy: Agreement as Non-Directional - An Approach to Bantu Concord. Mayrene Bentley: Variation in Bantu Verbal Agreement. Henny Broekman: African Languages and Syntactic Generation. Marianna Visser: The Thematic Structure of Event Nominals in Xhosa. Andrew van der Spuy: Syntactic Traces in Zulu. Ronald P. Schaefer: Talmy"s Schematic Core and Verb Serialization in Emai - An Initial Sketch. J.A. du Plessis: The Semantics of Ergative Constructions in Zulu and Xhosa. Andrew Tilimbe Kulemeka: The Grammatical Category of Chichewa Ideophones. IV. INTERACTIONAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS - V. LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING - VI. LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL STUDIES