Description This volume is the first in what hopefully will be a growing set of edited volumes and monographs concerning Niger-Congo comparative studies.
Over these years and to this day he has been en.
His research interests include information structures, morphology and tone, tense-aspect-mood, comparative-historical topics, and language and society.
He has authored various articles including the Bantoid overview in Bendor-Samuel\'s Niger-Congo (1989), the syntax chapter in Heine and Nurse\'s African Languages (2000), and the Grassfields Bantu overview in Nurse and Philippson\'s The Bantu Languages (2003).
His specialism is the description of African languages, in particular the Bantoid subgroups of Ekoid and Grassfields.
He has taught at UCLA and the University of Yaounde , and directed the SIL linguistics program based at the University of Oregon. in Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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Previously he earned a BA in History at the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA and Ph.
He has been a field researcher at SIL Cameroon (1974-1989), the SIL Africa Area Director (1989-1999), the SIL International Executive Director (2000-2007), and the President of SIL International (2008-2016).
Watters works at SIL International (SIL).
About the Author John R.
A forthcoming volume will provide some results of reconstructions and lexicostatistics in Cross River, exploratory reconstructions in Southern Jukunoid, and reconstructions in Ekoid-Mbe and Mambiloid.
The potential topics for comparative studies among these languages are numerous, but this volume is dedicated to presentations on nominal affixes, third person pronouns, and verbal extensions.
In the case of Bantoid, the particular focus is on Grassfields and the Grassfields-Bantu borderland, though other Bantoid subgroups are referenced.
This first volume addresses matters that are relevant to the entire East Benue-Congo family as well as the particular branches Kainji, Plateau, and Bantoid.
Description This volume is the first in what hopefully will be a growing set of edited volumes and monographs concerning Niger-Congo comparative studies
