Includes bibliographical references Pt.1, General. Surmic languages and cultures: An introduction / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- A syntactic typology of the Surmic family from an areal and historical-comparative point of view / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- Women in society and female speech among the Suri of Southwestern Ethiopia / Moges Yigezu -- Cross-ethnic clan identities among Surmic groups and their neighbours: The case of the Mela / Peter Unseth & Jon Abbink -- Two old causative affixes in Surmic languages / Peter Unseth -- Surmic languages and cultures: A bibliography / Jon Abbink & Peter Unseth -- Pt.2, Northern Surmic. Notes on clan, kinship and marriage patterns among the Majang / Peter Unseth -- Pt.3, Southwestern Surmic. Murle categorization / Jonathan Arensen -- A grammatical sketch of Tennet / Scott Randal -- Notes on Baale / Moges Yigezu & Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- Pt.4, Southeastern Surmic. Violence and political discourse among the Chai Suri / Jon Abbink -- A sketch of Koegu grammar: Towards reconstructing Proto-Southeastern Surmic / Osamu Hieda -- A grammatical sketch of Chai, a Southeastern Surmic language / Marco Last & Deborah Lucassen -- The Me'en verb system: Does Me'en have tenses? / Hans-Georg Will