Babayev K.V. Proto-Niger-Congo. Personal Pronouns. – Moscow, 2013. 608 p., maps. – (Studia philologica). ISBN 978-5-9551-0642-7

Introduction 7 List of abbreviations 19 Foreword. Niger-Congo macro-family 23 Ch.1. Principles and methods of research 43 § 1. Methods of comparative analysis in application to the Niger-Congo family 43 § 2. Synchronic and diachronic typology of Niger-Congo personal markers 63 Ch. 2. Reconstruction of Benue-Congo personal markers 75 § 1. General characteristic of Benue-Congo languages 75 § 2. Bantu languages 78 § 3. Bantoid languages 96 § 4. Cross-river languages 117 § 5. Plato, Kaindji and Jukoid languages 127 § 6. West Benue-Congo languages 138 § 7. Proto-Benue-Congo personals markers 161 Ch. 3. Reconstruction of personal markers in Kwa languages 170 Ch. 4. Reconstruction of personal markers in Gur languages 194 Ch. 5. Reconstruction of personal markers in Adamaua and Ubanga languages 216 § 1. Personal markers in Ubangi 216 § 2. Personal markers in Adamaua 256 Ch. 6. Reconstruction of personal markers in Kru languages 273 Ch. 7. Personal markers in Mande languages 303 § 1. Reconstruction of personal markers in South-West Mande 308 § 2. Reconstruction of personal markers of Pra-Mande 348 Ch. 8. Reconstruction of personal markers in Atlantic languages 359 § 1. Personal markers in Bak languages 372 § 2. Personal markers in Changin languages 381 § 3. Personal pronouns in South-Atlantic languages 383 § 4. On the possibility of reconstructing the Proto-Atlantic system of personal markers 392 Ch. 9. Personal markers in Ijoid, Dogon and Kordofanian languages 406 § 1. Personal markers in Ijoid languages 406 2. Personal markers in Dogon languages 416 3. Personal markers in Kordofanian languages 425 Ch 10. The Proto-Niger Congo system of personal markers. Reconstruction 434 1. The Proto-Volta-Congo system of personal pronouns. Reconstruction. 435 2. Evolution of pronoun systems in different branches of the Niger-Congo family 464 3. On pronoun markers in other language families of Subsaharan Africa 474 Conclusion 481 References 485

Supple Supplement 1. Personal markers in Bantu languages 527 Supple Supplement 2. Personal markers in Central-Nigerian languages 547 Supple Supplement 3. Third person markers in Kwa languages 557 Supple Supplement 4. Personal markers in Gur languages 562 Supple Supplement 5. Personal markers in Mande languages 577

List of languages 588 Abstract 598 Contents 601 List of geographical cards 603