Serial Verbs in Ibibio by Major, Travis

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A Shift in Batonu Personal Naming Practices by Gbenga Fakuade, Azibaoguanasi Williams, Ikechukwu Nnaji, Theresa Odeigah

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Rhythm pattern discovery in Niger-Congo story-telling by Dafydd Gibbon

“…Description of interactive oral story-telling in West African Niger-Congo languages, “orature” in contrast to “literature”, has traditionally been firmly in the domain of anthropological linguistics. …”
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The lexicostatistical base of Bennett & Sterks reclassification of Niger-Congo with particular reference to the cohesion of Bantu by Thilo C. Schadeberg

“…In 1977, Bennett and Sterk published a reclassification of the Niger-Congo languages which has been highly influential. …”
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Adjectives and adjectivialization processes in Edo by Thomas O. Omoruyi

“…Real adjectives are few in Niger-Congo languages. Welmers [1973] warns that we should be suspicious of what is traditionally called adjectives in these languages: In this article, an attempt is made to describe the processes of expressing adjectival concepts in Edo. …”
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The origins of inflectional classes by Bach, X

“…This is shown to be the origins of systems of inflectional classes in Niger-Congo languages, as well as in Arapesh languages from New Guinea. …”

A Comparative Study of Ideophones in Dagbani and Gurenԑ by Samuel Awinkene Atintono, Samuel Alhassan Issah

“…This paper examines the linguistic characteristics of ideophones in Dagbani and Gurenԑ, two Mabia (Gur) Niger-Congo languages spoken in the Northern and Upper East Regions of Ghana, respectively. …”
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The Numeral System in Koromfe language of Arbinda by Inoussa GUIRE

“…This phenomenon must now be taken into account not only in the typological consideration of Niger-Congo languages according to numeral systems, but also in the didactics of mathematics in a bilingual context in this area. …”
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Phonological reflexes of emphasis in Kwa languages of Côte D’Ivoire by William Roanld Leben, Firmin Ahoua

“…In this group a variety of phonological strategies are used to mark emphasis, including prosodic devices that have not been widely reported in the literature for Niger-Congo languages, and that may or may not differ from other language groups. …”
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Indirect truth marking via backgrounding: evidence from Bantu by Kerr Elisabeth J., Van der Wal Jenneke

“…In this paper, we provide evidence in support of the traditional link between truth marking and focus, using original field data on the morphosyntactic expression of information structure in 11 Bantu (Niger-Congo) languages. By working from function to form, we show that these languages use a variety of grammatical strategies for truth expression, strategies that are used elsewhere in the information structural system for backgrounding. …”
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Overview of Ibibio Adjectives by Martinez García, María Teresa

“…This paper discusses some relevant characteristics of adjectives and adjectival agreement in Ibibio, a Lower Cross Niger-Congo language spoken in Nigeria. The existence of a closed class of adjectives in African languages is a point of controversy in the literature.…”
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Focused Constituent Interrogatives in Lɛtɛ (Larteh) by Mercy Akrofi Ansah

“… Lεtε is a South Guan (Kwa, Niger-Congo) language (Lewis, 2009) spoken in only one town: Larteh, located in the southeastern part of Ghana, West Africa. …”
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Pieces of the periphery: A glance into the cartography of Ibibio’s CP domain by Doherty, John-Patrick

“…This ordering is assumed to result from a predetermined hierarchy that is defined by Universal Grammar (UG), reflecting an innate biological capacity for language in humans (Rizzi, 1989, p. 66). Ibibio, a Niger-Congo language, features a rich left periphery whose components demonstrate this hierarchical ordering. …”
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Introduction to the issue by Thera Marie Crane

“…Finally, Dione offers Lexical-Functional Grammar analyses of prominent linguistic features in Wolof, a Niger-Congo language that is spoken mostly in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania. …”
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