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Journal of African Languages and Linguistics Editors: FELIX K. AMEKA and MAARTEN MOUS ISSN 0167-6164 Volume 20, Number 2 (1999) TORBEN ANDERSEN Vowel quality alternation in Mabaan and its Western Nilotic history THOMAS BEARTH The contribution of African linguistics towards a general theory of focus. Update and critical review TOM G�LDEMANN Toward a grammaticalization and typological account of the ka-possessive in southern Nguni Book reviews ARVI HURSKAINEN English-Swahili Dictionary (Kamusi ya Kiingereza-Kiswahili), by TUKI ARVI HURSKAINEN Kamusi ya Maana na Matumizi, by Salim K. Bakhressa RAIMUND KASTENHOLZ Beng-English Dictionary, with English-Beng Index, by Alma Gottlieb and M. Lynne Murphy FREDERIK KORTLANDT Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction, by Vladimir E. Orel and Olga V. Stolbova MAARTEN KOSSMANN Commentary on the Berber forms in Orel and Stolbova Recent publications in African Linguistics For subscription information please contact the publisher: Mouton de Gruyter Genthiner Str. 13 10785 Berlin, Germany Fax: +49 30 26005 222 e-mail: ordersMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuedegruyter.de Journals and titles published by Mouton de Gruyter can be ordered via World Wide Web at: http://www.degruyter.com