ABSTRACT

First published in 1971. The Sierra Leone Language Review is the African Language Journal of Fourah Bay College, the University College of Sierra Leone. The Journal is devoted to the detailed study of languages in Sierra Leone and neighbouring areas of West Africa, and also to the more general study and discussion of African languages and language-problems

chapter 1|2 pages

Samuel Ajayi Crowther

A Biographical Note

chapter 5|18 pages

Focus and Entailment

Further Problems of Transitivity in Swahili

chapter 7|8 pages

Sanye and Sandawe

a Common Substratum?

chapter 8|7 pages

Hausa nàà

‘To be' or not ‘to be’?

chapter 9|13 pages

A Hausa Poet in Lighter Vein

chapter 13|32 pages

An Ethnolinguistic Inventory of the Lower Guinea Coast before 1700

Part II: [The first part of this article appeared in African Language Review, 7, 1968, pp. 47–73.]

chapter 14|6 pages

Etsako in the Polyglotta Africana