"West African languages"

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General abbreviations and symbols 7

Standard glossing labels 7

Introduction Nina Pawlak, Izabela Will 9

PART I. WEST AFRICA AS A LINGUISTIC AREAMeasuring phonological complexity in West African languages Gian Claudio Batic 23

Innovative features of nouns and pronouns in Chadic languages of the Nigerian Gongola-Benue basin Sergio Baldi, Rudolf Leger 46

Methodological and technical challenges of a corpus-based study of Naija Bernard Caron 57

PART II. STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF LANGUAGES AND THEIR THEORETICAL FRAMESClause chaining in Bambara Valentin Vydrin 79

Categorization of phasal polarity items in Bambara (Mande) Klaudia Dombrovsky-Hahn 99

Ma-causatives in Tomo Kan Dogon: between causatives and passives Vadim Dyachkov 127

Asymmetries in negation in the Atlantic languages: a preliminary comparison Aurore Montébran 140

Let’s tidy up the grammar of Hausa and analyse after/behind in after class/after he arrives/he’s behind etc. as prepositions Philip J. Jaggar 153

Enhancing grammar and valence resources for Akan and Ga Dorothee Beermann, Lars Hellan 166

PART III. SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES AND CONCEPTUALIZATION PATTERNSOn the shi- evaluative prefi x in Lamnsoꞌ Lendzemo Constantine Yuka 189

Tiv compounds and compouding Vanessa Chivir Adzer 198

Nigerian Pidgin English phraseology in the context of areal infl uences Olga Frąckiewicz 213

Lexical iconicity in Adamorobe Sign Language (AdaSL) and Ghanaian Sign Language (GSL) Mary Edward 230

PART IV. SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATIVE ASPECTS OF LANGUAGESPhraseological units involving body-part terms: a corpus based analysis of Hausa to English translation Yakubu Magaji Azare 255

Linguistic repertoires of refugees in Internally Displaced Peoples’ (IDP) camps in North East Nigeria Judith A. Mgbemena 266

The function of nonverbal regulators in Hausa face-to-face interaction Aisha Umar Adamu 279

“Allah expressions” as a manifestation of common cultural area in West Africa Nina Pawlak 288