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CONTENTS: Mietzner: Franz Rottland - eine Kurzbiographie. Andersen: Number inflection in Mayak (Northern Burun). Banti: Notes on Somali camel terminology. Batibo: Change of feature prominence as a motivation to sound change - the case of Setswana consonant system. Bechhaus-Gerst: The notion of "race" and the relationship between Africa and Pharaonic Egypt. Bender: The genetic position of Nilotic i: independent pronouns. Boadi: Pronominal status, kinship and tone in Akan. Creider: Reflections on linguistic fieldwork. Dimmendaal: Noun classification in Baale. Ehret: Is Krongo after all a Niger-Congo language? Hayward: Observations on tone in the Higir dialect of Nara. Heine: On the rise of new-event markers in Kxoe. Hieda: Some problems in Datooga (Bajuuta dialect) consonantal system. Kastenholz: On the relational preverbs lá- and ma- in Bambara (Manding). Kießling: Number marking on Datooga nouns. Legère: "... are not fully involved..." - language knowledge and language use among the Barabaig and Iraqw. Mekacha: The co-existence of communities speaking Kiswahili and other languages in Tanzania. Miehe/Muranga: Die Proto-Bantu-Lautentsprechungen im Rukiga [Ruciga]. Möhlig: Dialektale Nähe unter den Bantusprachen im Nordosten des Victoria Nyanza. Mous: Counter-universal rise of infinitive-auxiliary order in Mbugwe (Tanzania, Bantu F 34). Nicolaï: De la filiation à l'héritage - réflexion sur les « logiques » de surdétermination. Nurse: Diachronic morphosyntactic change in western Tanzania. Omondi: The meaning of pakruok. Reh: Migration, polygamy and interethnic marriage as causes of language birth - the Southern Lwoo languages. Schadeberg: The tonal system of EKoti nouns. Sommer: Aspects of Yeyi (R 41) verbal morphology. Sure: Suba ethnolinguistic revival. Walusimbi: The influence of foreign languages on Ugandan languages - a case study of borrowing in Luganda. Zima: Personal pronouns in Songhay.