Kay  Williamson: Major Publications

 

Williamson, Kay.  1965 (2nd ed. 1969).  A grammar of the Kolokuma dialect of Ịjọ.  (West African Language Monographs, 2.) London: C.U.P.

Williamson, Kay, and Kiyoshi Shimizu (edd.).  1968.  Benue-Congo comparative wordlist: Volume I.  Ibadan: West African Linguistic Society.

Williamson, Kay (ed.)  1972.  Igbo-English dictionary.  Benin: Ethiope Publishing Corporation.

Williamson, Kay (ed.).  1973.  Benue-Congo comparative wordlist: Volume II.  Ibadan: West African Linguistic Society.

Williamson, Kay (ed.)  1983.  Orthographies of Nigerian languages: Manual II.  Lagos: National Language Centre, Federal Ministry of Education.

Williamson, Kay, and A. O. Timitimi (edd.).  1983.  Short Ịzọn-English dictionary.  (Delta Series No. 3.)  Port Harcourt: University of Port Harcourt Press.

Williamson, Kay.  1984.  Practical orthography in Nigeria. Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd.

Williamson, Kay.  1971.  The Benue-Congo languages and Ịjọ.  In: Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol. 7, series ed. by T. A. Sebeok, 245-306.

Williamson, Kay.  1979.  Small languages in primary education: the Rivers Readers Project as a case history.  African Languages/Langues Africaines 5:2.95-l05.

Williamson, Kay.  1989.  Niger-Congo Overview. In: The Niger-Congo languages, ed.  by John Bendor-Samuel, 3-45.  University Press of America.

Williamson, Kay.  1989.  Benue-Congo Overview.  In: The Niger-Congo languages, ed.  by John Bendor-Samuel, 246-274.  University Press of America.

Williamson, Kay, and Roger Blench.  2000.  Niger-Congo.  In: African languages: an introduction, ed. B. Heine and D. Nurse, Chapter 2, 11-42.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

 

Articles and chapters

 

1.

Williamson, Kay.  1959.  The units of an African tone language.  Phonetica 3.145-166.

2.

Williamson, Kay.  1962.  (Republished by Bobbs-Merrill Reprints 1971.).  Changes in the marriage system of the Okrika Ịjọ.  Africa 32.53-60.

3.

Williamson, Kay.  1963.  The syntax of verbs of motion in Ịjọ.  J. African Languages 2.150-154.

4.

Williamson, Kay.  1963.  History through linguistics. Ibadan 17.10-11.

5.

Williamson, Kay.  1965.  Results from the linguistic questionnaire.  Ibadan 21.25-28.

6.

Williamson, Kay.  1966.  The status of /e/ in Onitsha Igbo.  Journal of West African Languages 3:2. 67-69.

7.

Williamson, Kay.  1966.  Ịjọ dialects in the Polyglotta Africana.  Sierra Leone Language Review 5.  122-133.

8.

Freemann, R. A., and Kay Williamson.  1967.  Ịjọ proverbs.  Research Notes (Ibadan) 1:1-11.

9.

Williamson, Kay.  1967.  Songhai wordlist.  (Gao dialect).  Research Notes (Ibadan) 1:3.1-31.

10.

Williamson, Kay.  1968.  Deep and surface structure in tone languages.  Journal of West African Languages 5:2. 77-81.

11.

Williamson, Kay.  1968.  Introduction to R.E. Bradbury: Comparative Edo wordlists.  Research Notes 1:4.1-4.

12.

Williamson, Kay.  1968.  Languages of the Niger Delta.  Nigeria Magazine 97.124-130.

13.

Williamson, Kay.  1969.  'Igbo' and 'Ịjọ', chapters 7 and 8 in: Twelve Nigerian Languages, ed. by E. Dunstan.  Longmans.

14.

Williamson, Kay, and A. O. Timitimi.  1970.  A note on number symbolism in Ịjọ.  African Notes (Ibadan) 5:3. 9-16.

15.

Williamson, Kay.  1970.  Some food plant names in the Niger Delta.  International Journal of American Linguistics 36.156-167.

16.

Williamson, Kay.  1970.  The definition of a tone language.  Actes du Xe Congrès International des Linguistes 4.861-864.

17.

Williamson, Kay.  1970.  The generative treatment of downstep.  In: Tone in Generative Phonology, Research Notes 3, nos. 2-3, 23-33.

18.

Williamson, Kay.  1970.  Some alternative proposals for the Igbo completive phrase.  In: Tone in Generative Phonology, Research Notes 3, nos. 2-3, 83-90.

19.

Williamson, Kay.  1971.  The Benue-Congo languages and Ịjọ.  In: Current Trends in Linguistics, Vol. 7, series ed. by T. A. Sebeok, 245-306.

20.

Williamson, Kay.  1971.  Animal names in Ịjọ.  Afr. Notes 6, no. 2, 53-61.

21.

Williamson, Kay.  1972.  Assimilation in Ọgbia.  Research Notes 5, nos. 2-3.  1-5.

22.

Williamson, Kay.  1972.  Summary of tonal behaviour.  Research Notes 5, nos. 2-3.93-l0l.

23.

Williamson, Kay.  1972.  The Nigerian Rivers Readers Project.  Linguistic Reporter 14, nos. 6, 1-2.

24.

Williamson, Kay.  1973.  More on nasals and nasalization in Kwa.  Studies in African Linguistics 4.115-138.

25.

Williamson, Kay.  1973.  The Lower Niger languages.  Òdùmá 1:1.32-35.

26.

Williamson, Kay.  1973.  Some reduced vowel harmony systems.  Research Notes 6:1-3. 145-169.

27.

Williamson, Kay.  1975.  Metre in Ịzọn funeral dirges.  Òdùmá 2:2.21-33.

28.

Maddieson, Ian, and Kay Williamson.  1975.  Jarawan Bantu.  African Languages 1.125-163.

29.

Williamson, Kay.  1975.  Publishing in local languages.  Report of the Commonwealth African Book Development Seminar, 29-36.  London: Commonwealth Secretariat.

30.

Williamson, Kay.  1976.  The Rivers Readers Project in Nigeria.  In: Mother tongue education: the West African experience, ed.  A.  Bamgbos`e, 135-153.  London: Hodder and Stoughton, Paris: UNESCO Press.

31.

Ladefoged, Peter, Kay Williamson, Ben Elugbe and Sister Ann Angela Uwalaka.  1976.  The stops of Owerri Igbo.  Studies in African Linguistics, Supplement 6, 147-163.

32.

Elugbe, Ben, and Kay Williamson.  1977.  Reconstructing nasals in Proto-Benue-Kwa.  In: Linguistic studies offered to Joseph Greenberg, ed. A.  Juilland, 339-363.  Saratoga, California: Anma Libri.

33.

Williamson, Kay.  1977.  Multivalued features for consonants.  Language 53.843-871.

34.

Williamson, Kay.  1978.  From tone to pitch-accent: the case of Ịjọ.  Kiabàrà 1:2.116-125.

35.

Williamson, Kay.  1979.  Consonant distribution in Ịjọ.  In: Linguistic and literary studies presented to Archibald Hill, ed.  E.C. Polome and W. Winter, 3.341-353.  Lisse, Netherlands: Peter de Ridder Press.

36.

Williamson, Kay.  1979.  Medial consonants in Proto-Ịjọ.  Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 1.73-94.

37.

Williamson, Kay.  1979.  Small languages in primary education: the Rivers Readers Project as a case history.  African Languages/Langues Africaines 5:2.95-l05.

38.

Williamson, Kay.  1979.  Sentence tone in some Southern Nigerian languages.  Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2.424-430.  Copenhagen: Institute of Phonetics, University of Copenhagen.

39.

Williamson, Kay.  l979.  The big guest.  (Introduction to three folktales.)  Kiabàrà 2:2.160-163.

40.

Williamson, Kay.  1980.  Recent progress of the Rivers Readers Project in Nigeria.  Educafrica (Bulletin of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Africa) 6.76-82.

41.

Orupabo, G. J., and Kay Williamson.  1980.  Okrika.  In West African language data sheets, Volume II, edited by M.E. Kropp Dakubu.  Leiden: West African Linguistic Society and African Studies Centre.

42.

Elugbe, Ben, and Kay Williamson.  1984.  The loss of the fortis/lenis contrast in Abuan resonants.  In: Topics in linguistic phonetics in honour of E.T. Uldall, ed. by Jody Higgs and Robin Thelwall.  Occasional Papers in Linguistics and Language Learning, No. 9.  Ulster, Linguistics Department.  New University of Ulster.

43.

Faraclas, N., and Kay Williamson.  1984.  Assimilation, dissimilation and fusion, vowel quality in Lower Cross.  Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 6.1-18.

44.

Williamson, Kay.  1984.  A note on the word bèkeè.  Ụwa ndị Igbo 1.102.

45.

Williamson, Kay.  1985.  How to become a Kwa language.  In Linguistics and Philosophy: Essays in honor of Rulon Wells, ed.  by Adam Makkai and Alan K Melby, 428-443.  (Current issues in Linguistic theory, No. 42).  Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

46.

Williamson, Kay.  1986.  The Igbo associative and specific constructions.  In: The phonological representation of suprasegmentals, ed.  by K. Bogers, H. Van der Hulst, and M. Mous, 195-206.  Dordrecht: Foris.

47.

Williamson, Kay.  1986.  Niger-Congo: SVO or SOV? Journal of West African Languages 16:1.5-15.

48.

Williamson, Kay.  1987.  Nasality in Ịjọ.  In: Current trends in African linguistics, 4, ed.  by David Odden, 397-415.

49.

Smith, N.S.H.,  I.E. Robertson & K. Williamson 1987. The Ijo element in Berbice Dutch.  Language and Society 16, , pp 49‑90.

50.

Williamson, Kay.  1988.  Linguistic evidence for the prehistory of the Niger Delta.  In: The Prehistory of the Niger Delta, ed.  by E.J. Alagoa and others.  Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.

51.

Williamson, Kay.  1989.  Niger-Congo Overview. In: The Niger-Congo languages, ed.  by John Bendor-Samuel, 3-45.  University Press of America.

52.

Williamson, Kay.  1989.  Benue-Congo Overview.  In: The Niger-Congo languages, ed.  by John Bendor-Samuel, 246-274.  University Press of America.

53.

Williamson, Kay.  1989.  Tone and accent in Ịjọ.  In Pitch accent systems, ed.  by Harry v.d. Hulst and Norval Smith, 253-278.  Foris Publications.

54.

Efere, E. E., and Kay Williamson.  1989.  Languages [of Rivers State].  Land and people of Nigeria: Rivers State, ed. by E.J. Alagoa and Tekena N. Tamuno.  Port Harcourt: Riverside Publications.

55.

Williamson, Kay.  1990.  Development of minority languages: publishing problems and prospects.  In Multilingualism, minority languages and language policy in Nigeria, edited by E.N. Emenanjọ, 118-144.  Agbor: Central Books Ltd in collaboration with the Linguistic Association of Nigeria.  Also published as in 1993 as Chapter 13 of Culture and the book industry in Nigeria, edited by Sule Bello and Abdullahi R. Augi, 203-209.  Lagos: National Commission for Arts and Culture.

56.

Lee, J. D., and Kay Williamson.  1990.  A lexicostatistic classification of Ịjọ dialects.  Research in African Languages and Linguistics 1:1.1-10.

57.

Williamson, Kay.  1990.  Transcription in Nigerian languages.  In Oral tradition and oral history in Africa and the diaspora: theory and practice, edited by E.J. Alagoa.  Lagos: Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization for Nigerian Association for Oral History and Tradition, 94-101.

58.

Williamson, Kay.  1991.  The tense system of Ịzọn.  In The tense systems of Nigerian languages and English, edited by Okon E. Essien.  Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere (AAP) 27.145-167.

59.

Williamson, Kay.  1992.  R.C. Abraham and D. Alagoma: their contribution to Igbo studies.  African Languages and Cultures, Supplement 1, 131-140.

60.

Williamson, Kay, and E. Nolue Emenanjọ.  1992.  Igbo.  International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics, edited by William Bright, 2.195-199.

61.

Williamson, Kay.  1992.  Some Bantu roots in a wider context.  Komparative Afrikanistik: Sprach-, geschichts- und literaturwissenschaftliche Aufsatze zu Ehren von Hans G. Mukarovsky anlässlich seines 70. Geburtstags, edited by E. Ebermann, E.R. Sommerauer und K.E. Thomanek, 387-403.

62.

Williamson, Kay.  1993.  Linguistic evidence for the use of some tree and tuber food plants in southern Nigeria.  The archaeology of Africa: Food, metals and towns, edited by Thurstan Shaw and others, 139-153. 

63.

Williamson, Kay.  1993.  Reading, writing and publishing in small languages.  In Teaching Nigerian languages: experiences from the Delta, edited by Rose O. Aziza and E. Nolue Emenanjọ.  Warri: COEWA Publishers.

64.

Williamson, Kay.  1993.  The noun prefixes of New Benue-Congo.  Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 14.29-45.

65.

Williamson, Kay.  1993.  Introduction [to orthographic practice in Nigeria].  In: Alphabets of Africa, ed. by Rhonda L. Hartell, 218-219.  Dakar: Unesco and SIL.

66.

Williamson, Kay.  1993.  Linguistic research on the Ikwerre language.  In: Studies in Ikwerre language and culture: Volume I, edited by Otonti Nduka, 154-162.  Ibadan: Kraft Books Ltd.

67.

Blench, Roger M., Kay Williamson, and Bruce Connell.  1994.  The diffusion of maize in Nigeria.  Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 15.9-46.

68.

Williamson, Kay.  1997.  Western African languages in historical perspective.  Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, edited by Joseph O. Vogel, 171-177.

69.

Williamson, Kay.  1998.  Defaka revisited.  The multi-disciplinary approach to African history, edited by Nkparom C. Ejituwu, Chapter 9, 151-183.  Port Harcourt: University of Port Harcourt Press.

70.

Williamson, Kay.  1999.  The development of the University of Port Harcourt 1977-1998, Chapter 2.  Port Harcourt: University of Port Harcourt Press Ltd.

71.

Williamson, Kay.  1999.  Distinctive features.  Appendix to: Shirley Yul-Ifode, A course in phonology, 242-264.  Port Harcourt: Riverside Communications.

72.

Efere, E. E., and Kay Williamson.  1999.  Languages [of Bayelsa State].  The land and people of Bayelsa State: Central Niger Delta, Chapter 7, 95-107.  Port Harcourt: Onyoma Research Publications.

73.

Williamson, Kay.  2000.  Did chickens go west?  The origins and development of African livestock, edited by Roger M. Blench and Kevin C. MacDonald, Chapter 23, 368-448.  London: UCL Press.

74.

Williamson, Kay, and Roger Blench.  2000.  Niger-Congo.  African languages: an introduction, ed. B. Heine and D. Nurse, Chapter 2, 11-42.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

75.

Williamson, Kay.  2000.  Towards reconstructing Niger-Congo.  Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics, edited by H. Ekkehard Wolff and Orin Gensler, 49-70.  Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

76.

Ndimele, O.-M., and Kay Williamson.  2002.  Languages [of Rivers State].  The land and people of Rivers State: Eastern Niger Delta, Chapter 9, 149-172.  Port Harcourt: Onyoma Research Publications.

77.

Williamson, Kay, and E. E. Efere.  2002.  Crosscurrents and confluences: linguistic clues to cultural development.  Appendix in: Anderson, Martha G., and Philip M. Peek.  Ways of the Rivers.  Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.

78.

Williamson, Kay.  2003.  Charles Bruce Powell, 1943-1998.  Crustaceana 75 (10): 1275-1278.

79.

Kay Williamson, co-editor (with Charles Lock) 2003. Richard Freemann, The Poor Man and his Vernacular Speaking Goat, Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing, XXV(2):24-39.

80.

Williamson, Kay.  2003.  Standard Ikwerre.  Chapter 8 in: Studies in Ikwerre language and culture: Volume Two, edited by Otonti Nduka, 134-137.

81.

Williamson, Kay.  2004.  The language situation in the Niger Delta.  Chapter 2 in: The development of Ịzọn language, edited by Martha L. Akpana, 9-13.