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Part I. Classification and Linguistic History: 1. Towards a historicalclassification of East African Bantu languages Derek Nurse; 2. SubclassifyingBantu: the evidence of stem morpheme innovation Christopher Ehret; 3.Classifications lexicostatistiques: bantou, bantou et bantoide. De l'interetdes 'groupes flottants' Yvonne Bastin and Pascale Piron; 4. A note onhistorical and geographical relations among the Bantu languages Michael Mann;5. Contact and lexicostatistics in comparative Bantu studies Thomas J.Hinnebusch; Part II. Comparative and Historical Phonology: 6. Nasal vowelcreation without nasal consonant deletion, and the eventual loss of nasalvowels thus created: the pre-Bantu case John M. Stewart; 7. The historicalinterpretation of vowel harmony in Bantu Larry M. Hyman; 8. Remarks on thesound correspondences between Proto-Bantu and Tswana (S.31) Denis Creissels;9. Vowel systems and spirantization in S. W. Tanzania Catherine Labroussi;10. Katupa's law in Makhuwa Thilo C. Schadeberg; 11. Unresolved puzzles inBantu historical tonology Gerard Philippson; Part III. Comparative andHistorical Morphology: 12. L'augment en bantou du Nord-Ouest Claire Gregoireand Baudouin Janssens; 13. Les formes nomino-verbales de classes 5 et 15 dansles langues bantoues du Nord-Ouest Pascale Hadermann; 14. Future and distal-ka-'s: Proto-Bantu or nascent form(s)? Robert Botne; 15. Tense and aspect inLacustrine Bantu languages Derek Nurse and Henry Muzale; 16. The genesis ofverbal negation in Bantu and its dependency on functional features of clausetypes Tom Guldemann; Part IV. Computational Tools for Bantu HistoricalLinguistics: 17. Introducing the comparative Bantu on-line dictionary projectJohn B. Lowe.