INHALT: Debela Goshu / Ronny Meyer: Conditional expressions in Oromo Christa König: The interaction between tense, aspect and modality in Khwe Robert Nicolaï: A Songhay-Mande convergence area? Facts, questions, frames Helga Schröder: Antipassive and ergativity in Western Nilotic and Surmic Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle / Martine Vanhove: Is there a Red Sea linguistic area?