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NEWS
Volume 38
number 2 is now out! Click on the link for a list of articles.
The latest new arrivals in our online archive of past articles are
Volume 12, Volume 13 and Volume 15.
Use the Article Search options to find articles on specific languages or
language families, or on a particular topic.
JWAL Call for papers:
The JWAL Editors propose to devote one future issue of JWAL to the subject of
Compounding. Contributors are invited to send papers on that subject within the
framework of Morphology, Syntax or Phonology. Papers should be no more than 15
JWAL sized pages (approximately 5500 words). The best 8 papers will be published
as one issue. Papers will be peer-refereed as usual, and the Editors’ decision
will be final. Deadline for receipt of contributions: 30.11.2011.
African Universities
The JWAL editorial team are keen for the journal to be available in as many West
African universities as possible. Special discounts are available. If you would
like to see this journal on the shelves of your library, please contact us so
that we can help with finding suitable means of payment and shipping.
The Journal
The
purpose of the Journal of West African Languages is to publish articles of good
quality and interest in all aspects of language and linguistics that are
relevant to the area of West Africa, which may be defined as Sub-Saharan Africa,
extending into Central Africa. Journal was founded in 1964 by the
West African Linguistic Society
, and has been in publication ever since, with gaps in 1972-73 and 1977-81.
When are issues published?
The Journal is published twice yearly, when enough articles are ready for
publication, though in some years a single combined volume is published.
Editorial Team
Keir L. Hansford (editor)
P. Ngessimo M. Mutaka (assistant editor)
Past editors have been: 1964-81 L.F. Brosnahan, Robert G. Armstrong, Carl
Hoffmann, John Spencer, Maurice Houis, Ben Elugbe, 1982-92 John Bendor-Samuel,
1993-97 Robert Hedinger.
Associate Editors have included Ursula Wiesemann, Pamela Bendor-Samuel, Robert
Hedinger, Rhonda Hartell, and Steve Pillinger.
Book Review Editors have included
Lynell Marchese(-Zogbo)
Editorial Board
Keir L. Hansford (Editor)
P.
Ngessimo M. Mutaka (Assistant Editor)
Beban S. Chumbow
Felix K. Ameka
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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