Frank Seidel 2008. A Grammar of Yeyi. A Bantu Language of Southern Africa. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln. 464 pages; 8 Chapters; 57 Tables; 12 Figures; 1341 Illustrations; Index Amani Lusekelo M. (Dar es Salaam University College of Education, Tanzania / Institut für Afrikanistik, Universität zu Köln 2009) <1> The structuring of this volume is quite impressive as the author manages to organize the massive materials into chapters that facilitate collectively the understanding of facts about the Bantu language Yeyi. The author uses a huge amount of illustrative examples, totaling 1.341, which are supported by subsequent good descriptions. Throughout the volume, the many illustrations used could easily be divided into three: (i) first examples from texts, mostly narratives and overhead tokens that reflect language in use in Yeyi hinterland, (ii) elicited examples, in most cases when textual examples miss or are unsatisfactory, are used to unfold the reality about the language, (iii) rarely data from other sources have been brought up to clarify some of the intriguing issues. One observes easily that the chaptering of the volume follows the common practice in Bantu – phonology-noun-verb-syntax – but with some modifications as we shall see below. Also, this volume is highly accredited of a well drawn schematic presentation of prosodemes which is a fascinating area across Bantu, as well as a systematic presentation of diagrams for tense, aspect and mood (TAM). Furthermore, the table of contents is elaborate enough to point out what is documented in the volume (pp. 9-13) and the glossing, transcriptions, abbreviations as well as conventions (pp. 14-17) are well given. The author successfully supplies the reader with the index to the end of the volume. <2> The review of this volume is divided into eight sections following the volume’s chapters. The volume opens with the introduction chapter (pp. 21-26) that embraces the socio- linguistics of the Yeyi people, the short introductory remarks on the review of previous studies covering Yeyi language, theoretical orientations of the study, and the methods of data collection and analysis. I would personally, too, open with a remark: the author appre- ciates existing literature but checks them succinctly with data gathered through his multi- faceted techniques. I return to the issue of review of literature specifically on the paragraph covering phonology and on data in other parts of this review. <3> Chapter Two is devoted to the phonology of the language which the author branches into phoneme inventory, phonotactic processes and syllable analysis (pp. 27-53) and prosodology (pp. 54-99). Seidel presents the 5-vowel system available in the language, vowel nasalization, imbrication and phonological processes, all well described and exempli- fied. He goes on to challenge existing literature as far as vowels are concerned. Turning to consonants, his inventory has 37 non-pre-nasalized eggressive consonants, 26 pre-nasalized ones, and Table 4 has 14 ingressive consonants i.e. clicks (p. 41). His analysis, as he 1