CURRENT PROGRESS IN CHADIC LINGUISTICS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Position of Chadic languages -- 2. Current research in Chadic linguistics -- 3. Organization of the volume -- 4. Content of the volume -- 5. Acknowledgments -- REFERENCES -- 6. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS -- VARIATIONIN FOCUS CONSTRUCTIONS -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. FOCUS Constructions in Chadic. -- 3. Constituent Structure and FOCUS Constructions -- 4. I as a FOCUS-Assigner -- 5. Variation -- 6. Summary and Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CASE ASSIGNMENT IN HAUSA, KANAKURU, AND NGIZIM -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Case Theory -- 3. Case Assignment and Government -- 4. Hausa -- 4.1. Neutral Word Order. -- 4.1.2. Pronoun Form in Non-Neutral Word Order. -- 4.2. Kanakuru -- 4.2.1. Pronoun Forms in Neutral Word Order. -- 4.2.2. Pronoun Forms in Non-Neutral Word Order. -- 4.3. Ngizim -- 4.3.1. Pronoun Forms in Neutral Word Order -- 4.3.2. Pronoun Forms in Non-Neutral Word Order. -- 5. Summary of the Data -- 6. West Chadic and Case Theory -- 6.1. Thematic Role and Structural Case -- 6.2. Case Assignment in West Chadic -- 7. Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- WORD ORDERS IN GUDE AND THE VSO PARAMETER -- 0. Introduction -- 1.0. The Data from Gude -- 1.1. Declarative Sentences -- 1.2. WH-constructions -- 1.3. Neutral Tense -- 1.4. Negative Sentences -- 1.5. Problems -- 2.0. VSO Analyses -- 2.1. Sproat's Analysis -- 2.1.1. Discussion -- 2.1.2. A Case Conflict Situation -- 2.1.3. A Prediction -- 2.1.4. Directionality of Case Assignment -- 2.2. Koopman's Analysis -- 2.2.1. The Basic Position of INFL -- 3.0. Analysis of Gude -- 3.1. Theoretical Assumptions -- 3.2. VSO Order -- 3.3. SVO Orders -- 3.3.1. Negative Constructions -- 3.3.2. Neutral Tense -- 3.3.3. WH-constructions -- 3.3.3.1. Reanalysis -- 4. Summary and Conclusion.

NOTES -- REFERENCES -- COMPLEMENTIZERS IN HAUSA -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. The Matrix Clause. -- 3. Complementation Types. -- 4. Complementizers. -- 6. Some Conclusions and Prospects. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- AN ALTERNATIVE MODEL OF WORD ORDER IN PROTO-CHADIC -- REFERENCES -- A NEW LOOK AT THE NP+NÀÀ+NP CONSTRUCTIONS -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Morpheme nàà as a Preposition. -- 2.1. Problems of Analysing nàà as a Preposition -- 3. Morpheme nàà as a Verb. -- 3.1. Problems of Analysing nàà as a Verb. -- 4. Morpheme nàà as a Tense/Aspect Marker. -- 4.1. NP+Nàà+NP as a Verbal Sentence. -- 4.2. The Underlying Verb in NP+nàà+NP Sentence -- 5. Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE VERBAL SYSTEM OF ADER HAUSA -- 0. Introduction. -- 1. Conjugation Series. -- 1.0. Introduction. -- 1.1. Homogeneous WH Seríes -- 1.1.1. Negative Perfective. -- 1.1.2. Relative Imperfective. -- 1.1.3. Relative Perfective. -- 1.1.4. Aorist (sometimes called subjunctive). -- 1.2. Conjugation Seríes with Only Slight Differences -- 1.2.1. Perfective. -- 1.2.2. Aorist Negative Forms. -- 1.3. Seríes Showing Important Variations. -- 1.3.1. Imperfective. -- 1.3.2. Negative Imperfective. -- 1.3.3. Future. -- 1.3.4. Potential (also called indefinite future or predictive). -- 1.3.5. Comments. -- 2. Verb Classes. -- 2.0. Introduction -- 2.1. Grade 2. -- 2.2. Grade 4. -- 2.3. Grade 4'. -- 2.5. Grade 5. -- 2.6. Grade 5'. -- 3. Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- GENDERAND NUMBER IN MIYA -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- ORIGINE DE L'EXTENSION VERBALE (ə)R(ə) INSTRUMENTAL ET CONNECTEUR, EN OULDEME. SYNCHRONIE DYNAMIQUE ET DIACHRONIE -- 1. -(ə)r(ə), Isolé dans la Famille Tchadique. -- 2. Identification du (ə)r(ə) ouldémé. -- 3. Valeur de (ə)r(ə) -- 4. L'origine du (ə)r(ə) Ouldémé et l'Évolution du Système Verbal Tchadique. -- 5. Conclusion. -- NOTE -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE.

INTONATION IN CHADIC: AN OVERVIEW -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Assumptions. -- 3. Question Intonation in Chadic. -- 4. External Sandhi. -- 5. Consistency of Patterns across Different Styles of Speech. -- 6. Intonation as a Marker of Morphological Boundaries: A Perceptual Test. -- 7. Conclusions. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- HAUSA AND THE PROTHETIC ALEF -- Conclusion. -- REFERENCES (With Abbreviations USED) -- DOUBLE EPENTHESIS AND N-CLASS IN CHADIC -- 1. Background, purpose, and scope of the paper -- 2. Hypotheses -- 3. Evidence -- 3.1. Angas group -- 3.3. Gwandara -- 3.3. Internal evidence in Hausa -- 3.4. Other Chadic languages -- 4. Where did the nasal prefix come from? -- 5. Epenthesis of /h/ vs. epenthesis of /?/ -- 6. Historical implications -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- IS HAUSA AN EARLY OR LATE STAGE CHADIC LANGUAGE? -- 1. Historic Phonology. -- 2. Retained Versus Innovative Vocabulary. -- 3. The Verbal System. -- 4. Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- VERBAL CONJUGATION IN PROTO-CHADIC -- 1. Some Methodological Principles. -- 2. Archaic Languages. -- 3. Archaic Chadic Languages. -- 4. The Prefix Conjugations in Semitohamitic (Afro-Asiatic). -- 5. The Indirect Conjugation of Cushitic. -- 6. The Case of Migama. -- 7. The Case of Mokulu, East Dangaleat, and Bidiya. -- 8. Further Evidence from Chadic. -- 9. Chado-Cushitic--A New Semitohamitic Branch? -- REFERENCE -- ON SEMANTICS OF ARABIC LOAN WORDS IN HAUSA -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF TOPICS -- INDEX OF LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS -- INDEX OF NAME (Excluding self-citation).