The first Nuba Mountain Languages Conference took place at Leiden University, the Netherlands, in 2012; the proceedings of this meeting were published as Schadeberg & Blench (2013). The second conference took place at INALCO, Paris, August 27-30, 2014. The current volume constitutes a selection of presentations from the Third Nuba Mountain Languages Conference at the University of Cologne, September 27-29, 2017. In addition, a number of contributions on languages in this area are included which could not be presented at this conference for various reasons. INHALT: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Introduction Part One: DESCRIPTIVE STUDIES Kadu Darryl Turner: Prepositions and pronominal case in Katcha Nilo-Saharan: Nubian Waleed Alshareef: Genitive constructions in Abu Jinuk Katherine Walker: Nominal number in Tabaq Lena Pointner: Verbal number in Tabaq Angelika Jakobi / Ali Ibrahim: Labile verbs in Tagle (Kordofan Nubian) Niger-Congo: Rashad Abeer Bashir: Noun class genders in Tagoi Maha A. Aldawi / Sawsan A.M. Nashid: An initial sketch of the Tagom noun phrase Niger-Congo: Heiban Nicolas Quint / Siddig Ali Karmal Koko: Koalib ideophones – A first overview of their main characteristics Niger-Congo: Katloid Birgit Hellwig: Verbal derivation in Katla – The comitative Nataliya Veit: The verbal derivational morpheme -aa in Tima Ulrike Nüsslein: Number marking in Julut Gertrud Schneider-Blum: Constituent focus and selective marking in Tima Niger-Congo: Talodi Heleen Smits: Negation in Lumun John Vanderelst / Ibrahim Kannu: Phonological rules and orthography development – A case study Part Two: COMPARATIVE STUDIES Russell Norton: Classifying the non-Eastern-Sudanic Nuba Mountain languages – Evidence from pronoun categories and lexicostatistics Roger Blench: Do Heiban and Talodi form a genetic group and how are they related to Niger-Congo? Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: Reconstructing Katloid and deconstructing Kordofanian Sharon Rose: The typology of vowel harmony in Nuba Mountain Languages Thilo C. Schadeberg: Core Kordofanian Der Tagungsband zur ersten Konferenz zu den Sprachen der Nuba-Berge wurde ebenfalls in unserem Programm veröffentlicht, überdies weitere Werke zu kordofanischen Sprachen und Kulturen: - A Grammar of Dagik (ISBN 978-3-89645-566-6) - A Tima-English Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-901-5) - Nayayirak tamaa dumurik – Speak Tima! (ISBN 978-3-89645-413-3) - Nuba Mountain Language Studies (ISBN 978-3-89645-427-0) - The Nominal and Verbal Morphology of Tima (ISBN 978-3-89645-559-8) - The Phonology of Koalib (ISBN 978-3-89645-552-9) - The Tima of the Nuba Mountains (Sudan) (ISBN 978-3-89645-898-8) - Tira and Otoro (ISBN 978-3-89645-173-6)weiterlesen