<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-kerning: none;">CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUE OF NORDIC JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-kerning: none;">AUXILIARY VERB CONSTRUCTIONS IN BANTU</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none;">We invite contributions to a special issue of the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica-Oblique; font-style: italic; font-kerning: none;">Nordic Journal of African Studies,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> dedicated to auxiliary constructions in Bantu languages. Despite their significance in this verb-centered family, auxiliaries have received relatively little in-depth, systematic attention in the general Bantu literature, especially when compared to the complex morphology of the simplex verbal word.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none;">We welcome submissions addressing the plethora of formal and functional aspects of Bantu auxiliaries. Contributions may include but are not limited to the following topics:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-indent: -48px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none;">-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-kerning: none;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Detailed studies addressing the categorical status of Bantu auxiliary constructions in relation to interconnected notions such as “deficient” or “defective” verbs, “compound constructions” and “aspectual copulas”.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-indent: -48px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none;">-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-kerning: none;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">In-depth analyses of the semantic and structural status, role and development of the lexical element (aka the “complement verb”, “auxiliate” or “second verb”) of the auxiliary construction.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px 48px; text-indent: -48px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none;">-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; font-kerning: none;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">Reconstruction of auxiliary constructions to any proto-stage and the potential uncovering of cycles of change.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-kerning: none;">We particularly encourage submissions concerning:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-kerning: none;">Previously non-described auxiliary verb constructions,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> in relation to categorical, functional and/or formal issues, or occurring in a previously un(der)described language or variety. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-kerning: none;">Auxiliaries and contact </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">– a facet of auxiliation which has remained poorly understood with regard to Bantu languages.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none;">We invite contributions from different theoretical frameworks, using synchronic, diachronic or panchronic approaches, focusing on languages from any part of the Bantu speaking area. Contributions may be comparative or address a specific variety, concentrating on a single auxiliary construction or any functionally or formally defined set of auxiliary verb constructions.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(70, 120, 134); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><span style="font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For the full call visit </span><a href="https://www.njas.fi/njas/announcement/view/24">https://www.njas.fi/njas/announcement/view/24</a></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-kerning: none;">Practicalities</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Authors interested in contributing should upload an abstract of ~ 300 words through the NJAS</span><span style="font-size: 14.67px; font-kerning: none;"> </span><span style="font-kerning: none;">submission system (<a href="https://www.njas.fi/njas/submission/"><span style="font-kerning: none; color: rgb(70, 120, 134); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">https://www.njas.fi/njas/submission/</span></a>), including a preliminary title and a synopsis/brief summary of their intended submission. Submit abstracts to the section “Special Issue: Auxiliary Verb Constructions in Bantu”. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full-length paper for peer review. Publication in the special issue depends on timely submission of the full-length paper and its acceptance by the special issue editors after peer review and possible revisions.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-kerning: none;">Tentative Time frame</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-kerning: none;">Abstract submission deadline</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">: 31 March 2025</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-kerning: none;">Notification of abstract acceptance:</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> 15 April 2025</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-kerning: none;">Paper submission deadline</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">: 30 September 2025</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-kerning: none;">Revised paper submission deadline</span><span style="font-kerning: none;">: 30 November 2025</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10.7px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 23px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-kerning: none;">Publication:</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> 1</span><span style="font-size: 12.22px; font-kerning: none;">st</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> quarter of 2026</span></p><div><span style="font-kerning: none;"><br></span></div></div></body></html>