INHALT Antje Meißner / Anne Storch: Preface of the Editors Roger Blench: Transitions in Izere nominal morphology and implications for the analysis of Plateau languages Herrmann Jungraithmayr: Zum Genus im Tschadischen Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer: The noun classification of Cala (Bogon) – A case of contact-induced change Antje Meißner: Some remarks on the morphology of Maa animal names Anne Storch / Yao Koffi: Noun classes and consonant alternation in Akebu (Togo) Ulrike Zoch: Genus im Hausa von Kumasi (Ghana) WEITERE BEITRÄGE Herrmann Jungraithmayr / Gábor Takács: Altägyptisch zwr (swr) gleich berbero-tschadischem *sw-? Gábor Takács: Tangale-Etymologien I Buchbesprechungen · Book Reviews · Compte-rendus de publications Michael J.C. Echeruo: Igbo-English Dictionary – A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language, with an English-Igbo Index (Rose-Juliet Anyanwu) Jouni F. Maho: A Comparative Study of Bantu Noun Classes (Peter Gottschligg) Jouni F. Maho: Few People, Many Tongues. The Languages of Namibia (Sabine Hoeth) Sergio Baldi: A First Ethnolinguistic Comparison of Arabic Loanwords Common to Hausa and Swahili (Rudolf Leger) Michael Noonan: A Grammar of Lango (Vladimir Morozov) Rose-Juliet Anyanwu: Aspects of Igbo Grammar – Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology and the Tonology of Nouns (Henning Schreiber)