00768cam a2200181 a 4500020002700000020002200027082000800049245006000057260004700117300003600164500005100200500018600251650003800437650003200475650003300507700002000540700002600560  a0865436312 (hardcover)  a0865436320 (pbk.)00a49600aLanguage history and linguistic description in Africa /  aTrenton, NJ :bAfrica World Press,cc1998.  ax, 316 p. :bill., maps ; 23 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references and index   aSelected papers of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held Mar. 23-25, 1995, in Santa Monica, Calif., sponsored by the University of California, Los Angeles. 0aAfrican languages--Classification 0aAfrican language--Phonetics 0aAfrican languages--Semantics1 aMaddieson, Ian.1 aHinnebusch, Thomas J.