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From the contents: 00Part 1 Descriptive Linguistics00Pius W. Akumbu: Noun class 9/10 tone in Central Ring Grassfields Bantu? An overview00Diana Archangeli / Douglas Pulleyblank: What is length compensating for? A surface-based account of NC lengthening00Esther P. Chie: Evidence for the existence of a phonological and an intonational domain in Babanki00Hugues Carlos Gueche Fotso: Multiverb constructions and the homorganic nasal in Nda?nda?00Guillaume Guitang: Personal pronoun encliticization in Masa00Larry M. Hyman: Lusoga noun phrase tonology00Roland Kießling: Salient features of the noun class system of Kung in a Ring perspective00Patrick Mve / Nelson C. Tschonghongei / Pierpaolo Di Carlo / Jeff Good: Cultural distinctiveness and linguistic esoterogeny? The case of the Fang language of Lower Fungom, Cameroon00Magdaline Bakume Nkongho: The semantic system of Proto Nyang noun classes00Ousmanou: Sound symbolism in gender and number distinction in Masa00Patricia Schneider-Zioga: On the licensing of nominals in Kinande00Keith Snider: Long and short vowels in Chumburung? An instrumental comparison00Emmanuel Tabah: Motivating metrical feet in Bezen ...