INHALT: Rudolf Leger: Rainer Vossen – Für Afrika bestimmt! Rose-Juliet Anyanwu: Information structure in the West African Benue-Congo languages Hõne, Igbo, Kana, Kuteb, and Yukuben Alan Barnard: Was the first language a Khoisan language? Sebastian K. Bemile: The proverb and universal thought Andy Chebanne: Eastern Kalahari Khoe languages – An update of their sociolinguistic and linguistic situations in Botswana Abdourahmane Diallo: Approximations phonologiques chez les locuteurs sosophones du français informel Gerrit Dimmendaal: On word-final voicing contrasts in Nilotic and beyond Edward Elderkin: Historical correlates of stress in ‖Ani Anne-Maria Fehn: Revisiting tense and aspect in the Khoe language family Jost Gippert: Sound systems in diachrony – Sibilants and affricates in Udi Tom Güldemann: Did Proto-Tuu have a paradigm of cardinal numbers? Osamu Hieda: “Prefix-like” elements in Nilotic Dymitr Ibriszimow / Balaraba Zulyadaini / Ahmad Tela Baba: Friendship requires visits – Hausa “zumunci” from a cognitive semantic point of view Herrmann Jungraithmayr: “Yibat = sányíi” und andere „unmögliche“ Gleichungen im Tschadischen Christa Kilian-Hatz: On the pygmies’ trail Bernhard Köhler: Zu den Grundlagen der Sprachtypologie aus afrikanistischer Sicht Christa König / Bernd Heine: Discourse markers in !Xun (W2 dialect) Karsten Legère: “Il-Torobo” and their language(s) in Tanzania – An update Wilhelm Möhlig: Dialectological comparison of the Northeast Bantu languages Marie Ngom: Un marque de classe déficitaire Robert Nicolaï: Comparer pour (trouver) quoi ? Ce qu’on cherche et ce qu’on trouve en linguistique, et en général Coffi Sambiéni: Etude comparative des classes nominales du ditammari et du mbɛlimɛ Henning Schreiber: Distances and clusters in Bisa – Dialectometry revisited Anne Storch: Linguistic landscapes of tourism – A case study from Zanzibar Akira Takada: Diversity in child-rearing practices among the San – Characteristics of gymnastic behaviour among the Gǀui/Gǁana Thomas Widlok: A practice approach to Hai//om storytelling Ed Wilmsen: Talking of things at Tsodilo – A multi-lingual Iron Age community in north-western Botswana in the 7th–10th centuries CE