Avant-propos / Foreword / Vorwort Paul Newman: Russell G. Schuh – An overview of his Chadic scholarship Umma Aliyu Musa / Esther Morgenthal / Henning Schreiber: Less commonly documented literacy practices – Secular Hausa Ajami as situated social literacy Sergio Baldi / Rudolf Leger: Animal names in Hausa and Kupto – Their specific characteristics mirrored in proverbs, epithets and sayings Gian Claudio Batic: Verb classes and TAM system in Kushi (Nigeria) Roger Blench: Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages Philippe Cassuto / Victor Porkhomovsky: Les stratégies de traduction de l'Ancien Testament dans les trois versions haoussa de la Bible – Un problème d'interprétation ? Emma Kuipers: Verb classification in Mogum (Eastern Chadic) Joseph Lovestrand: Ideophones in Barayin Joseph McIntyre: Patterns of organisation in the Hausa grade system Nina Pawlak / Joseph McIntyre: Semantic and pragmatic motivations of gender assignment in Hausa James Roberts / Albert Camus Soulokadi: On ideophones in Musey Olga Stolbova: Lexical links between Chadic, Cushitic and Omotic languages Henry Tourneux: Le syntagme nominal dans le parler « kotoko » de Kousseri Melanie Viljoen: Gavar verb morphology