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CONTENTS: Megan Biesele: Patrick John Dickens — 1953–1992. APPLIED H. Russell Bernard / George Ngong Mbeh / W. Penn Handwerker: The Tone Problem. Megan Biesele: Patrick Dickens’s Ju|'hoan Linguistics Work – Educational and Political Implications. Melissa Heckler: The Whole Village Classroom – a Portrait of a Linguist and a People. ORAL LITERATURE Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig: The Architecture of Bantu Narratives – an Interdisciplinary Matter Analysis of a Dciriku Text. Sigrid Schmidt: Representatives of Evil in Khoisan Folktales. PHONOLOGY Richard Bailey: Issues in the Phonology and Orthography of Chopi (ciCopi S 61). Toni Borowsky: Hausa Plurals and Optimality. G. Tucker Childs: Tone and Accent in Atlantic. Robert K. Herbert: Prenasalized Consonants and Dahl’s Law – Questions of Representation and Subclass. J.A. Louw: Xhosa Tone. MORPHOLOGY J.S.M. Khumalo: CV Templates in Zulu Morphology – a Multilinear Approach. Andrew van der Spuy: Morphological Case-Marking in Zulu. Susan M. Suzman: The Discourse Origin of Agreement in Zulu. SYNTAX Wilfrid H.G. Haacke: Instances of Incorporation and Compounding in Khoekhoegowab (Nama/Damara). Mark Sebba: Some Remarks on Ju|'hoan Serial Verbs. Thomas Widlok: The “Irrealis” at Work in Hai||om. SEMANTICS Sabine Neumann: Static Spatial Relations in SheNgologa (SheKgalagadi). SOCIOLINGUISTICS Tore Janson: The Status, History and Future of Sekgalagadi. Gabriele Sommer / Rainer Vossen: Linguistic Variation in Siyeyi. PHILOLOGY Mary C. Bill: Berthoud’s Leçons de Sigwamba (1883) – the First Tsonga Grammar. Anthony Traill: Interpreting |Xam Phonology: the Need for Typological Cleansing.