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Wm. E. Welmers: African language structures, xi, 488 pp. Berkeley, etc.: University of California Press, [C1973]. $20. (English agents: IBEG Ltd. £10.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1975

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References

1 This is far from being the only place where the flimsy nature of some of the author's data is revealed; see also p. 209 (para. 3), p. 201 (para. 1), and p. 209 (para. 4).

2 Greenberg, J., The languages of Africa, Bloomington, Indiana, 1963.Google Scholar

3 In particular also there is ample space devoted to the demonstration of Welmers's own modification of the internal classification of Niger-Kordofanian, in accordance with Welmers, The Mande languages (Georgetown University Monograph Series in Languages and Linguistics, 11), Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press, 1958, 9–24.