A Grammar Of Cameroonian Pidgin

Author : Nkemngong Nkengasong
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443887540

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A Grammar of Cameroonian Pidgin by Nkemngong Nkengasong Pdf

This volume represents a comprehensive description of the structure of Cameroonian Pidgin, including an overview of its socio-cultural context, writing system, sounds, word formation, word classes and sentence structures. It comprises a corpus of 540 Cameroonian Pidgin proverbs and a rich glossary of over 1000 words and expressions typical of Cameroonian Pidgin which are helpful in understanding the characteristic features of the language, as well as the cultural, the social, and the philosophical contexts of the Cameroonian Pidgin speaker. Written with the first-hand experience of a “native speaker”, it will be of interest to ordinary users, as well as students, researchers and professional linguists interested in the way the language functions. Indeed, it represents a useful resource for anyone wishing to learn or know about Pidgin, especially tourists and professionals traveling to West and Central Africa.

Author : Jean-Paul Kouega
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132478194

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A Dictionary of Cameroon Pidgin English Usage by Jean-Paul Kouega Pdf

Author : Miriam Ayafor,Melanie Green
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027266033

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Cameroon Pidgin English by Miriam Ayafor,Melanie Green Pdf

Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral presence in Cameroon, and the linguistic examples illustrating this description are drawn from a spoken corpus consisting of a range of text types, including oral narratives, radio broadcasts and spontaneous conversation. The authors’ typologically-framed investigation of the features of the language, from its phonetics, phonology and lexicon to its syntax and discourse structure, allows the reader a clear view of the linguistic character of CPE, offering a comprehensive description of the language that will be of interest to creolists as well as linguists interested in African languages, contact linguistics and comparative linguistics.

Author : Miriam Ayafor,Melanie J. Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : OCLC:1352452436

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Cameroon Pidgin English by Miriam Ayafor,Melanie J. Green Pdf

Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon's population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral presence in Cameroon, and the linguistic examples illustrating this description are drawn from a spoken corpus consisting of a range of text types, including oral narratives, radio broadcasts and spontaneous conversation. The authors' typologically-framed investigation of the features of the language, from its phonetics, phonology and lexicon to its syntax and discourse structure, allows the reader a clear view of the linguistic character of CPE, offering a comprehensive description of the language that will be of interest to creolists as well as linguists interested in African languages, contact linguistics and comparative linguistics

Author : Eric A. Anchimbe
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614511199

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Language Contact in a Postcolonial Setting by Eric A. Anchimbe Pdf

This timely book brings together research on the features and evolution of Cameroon English and Cameroon Pidgin English, approached from a variety of innovative multilingual frameworks that focus on the emergence of mother tongue speakers. The authors illustrate how language and population contact, history (colonialism), multilingualism, translation, and indigenization have contributed to shaping the norms of postcolonial Englishes and Pidgins. Employing naturalistic data, the volume provides a new fascinating perspective that better situates and supplements existing research in the fields of African Englishes and Creolistics. It is particularly of key interest to sociolinguists, contact linguists, Africanists, Anglicists, creolists and historical linguists.

Author : Kofi Yakpo
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783961101337

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A grammar of Pichi by Kofi Yakpo Pdf

Pichi is an Afro-Caribbean English-lexifier Creole spoken on the island of Bioko, Equatorial Guinea. It is an offshoot of 19th century Krio (Sierra Leone) and shares many characteristics with West African relatives like Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin, and Ghanaian Pidgin English, as well as with the English-lexifier creoles of the insular and continental Caribbean. This comprehensive description presents a detailed analysis of the grammar and phonology of Pichi. It also includes a collection of texts and wordlists. Pichi features a nominative-accusative alignment, SVO word order, adjective-noun order, prenominal determiners, and prepositions. The language has a seven-vowel system and twenty-two consonant phonemes. Pichi has a two-tone system with tonal minimal pairs, morphological tone, and tonal processes. The morphological structure is largely isolating. Pichi has a rich system of tense-aspect-mood marking, an indicative-subjunctive opposition, and a complex copular system with several suppletive forms. Many features align Pichi with the Atlantic-Congo languages spoken in the West African littoral zone. At the same time, characteristics like the prenominal position of adjectives and determiners show a typological overlap with its lexifier English, while extensive contact with Spanish has left an imprint on the lexicon and grammar as well.

Author : David Bellama,Solomon Nkwele,Joseph Yudom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039761387

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An Introduction to Cameroonian Pidgin by David Bellama,Solomon Nkwele,Joseph Yudom Pdf

Author : Emanuel J. Drechsel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107015104

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Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific by Emanuel J. Drechsel Pdf

This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the eastern Pacific by arguing that Maritime Polynesian Pidgin preceded the introduction of Pidgin English by as much as a century. Emanuel J. Drechsel not only opens up new methodological avenues for historical-sociolinguistic research in Oceania by a combination of philology and ethnohistory, but also gives greater recognition to Pacific Islanders in early contact between cultures. Students and researchers working on language contact, language typology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics will want to read this book. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact.

Author : Funwi F. Ayuninjam
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0761811206

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A Reference Grammar of Mbili by Funwi F. Ayuninjam Pdf

A Reference Grammar of Mbili explores the major linguistic components of the Mbili language from a primarily descriptive point of view and within the cultural context of this Bantu language spoken in Cameroon. It presents a detailed and accessible account of the roots and history of the language, clearly situated within both the Niger Congo language group in general and the Grassfield Bantu language sub group specifically. The language portion begins with a descriptive introduction to the sound segments of Mbili and the methods of combining them. It then moves into the suprasegments of the language, including tone, stress, and intonation; it investigates the interaction of tone, tense, and mood, as well as the distribution of tone and intonation in Mbili. Segmental and suprasegmental phonemes are related in terms of what they require, tolerate, and exclude. The next presentation deals with the morphology of nouns and verbs. On the one hand it establishes a structural identification of the noun classes and determines a functional and semantic categorization of the classifiers; on the other hand it identifies and relates the temporal, aspectual, and modal categories of Mbili, and also studies the semantics of the verb through a case grammar analysis. Finally, the book approaches syntax through a clause and sentence level of analysis to explain the nature of sentence structure in a manner related to English sentence structure. The appendix contains a lexicon as well as traditional folk stories and their translations to convey aspects of Cameroonian culture and examples of the nature of the Mbili language.

Author : Mark L.O. Van de Velde
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110207859

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A Grammar of Eton by Mark L.O. Van de Velde Pdf

A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is carefully analysed and presented in a simple and consistent descriptive framework, which permits the reader to keep track of Eton's many tonal morphemes. Phonologists will be especially interested in the analysis of stem initial prominence, which manifests itself in a number of logically independent phenomena, including length of the onset consonant, phonotactic skewing and number of tonal attachment sites. Typologists and Africanists working on morphosyntax will find useful analyses of, among others, gender and agreement; tense, aspect, mood and negation; and verbal derivation. They will encounter many morphosyntactic differences between Eton and the better known Eastern and Southern Bantu languages, often due to evolutions shaped by maximality constraints on stems. The chapters on clause structure and complex constructions provide data hardly found in sources on the languages of the region, including descriptions of non-verbal clauses, focus, quasi-auxiliaries and adverbial clauses.

Author : Ian F. Hancock
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789027270603

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Readings in Creole Studies by Ian F. Hancock Pdf

Creole studies embrace a wide range is disciplines: history, ethnography, geography, sociology, etc. The phenomenon of creolization has come to be recognized as widespread; creolization presupposes contact, and that is a human universal. The present anthology discusses social, historical and theoretical aspects of over twenty pidgins and creoles. Part one deals with general theoretical issues, especially those relating to pidgin language formation and expansion. Part two deals with those pidgins and creoles lexically related to indigenous African languages, and with incipient features of creolization in African languages themselves; part three with those related to Romance languages, and part four with those related to English. Throughout the volume, several current debates are taken up, including the still unsettled issues of creole language origins and classification.

Author : Edmond Biloa,Lozzi Martial Meutem Kamtchueng,Brice Joël Foualeng Die
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3862888983

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A Comparative Study of Intensification in Camfranglais and Cameroon Pidgin English by Edmond Biloa,Lozzi Martial Meutem Kamtchueng,Brice Joël Foualeng Die Pdf

Author : John Holm
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521585813

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An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles by John Holm Pdf

A clear and concise introduction to the study of how new languages come into being.

Author : Loreto Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317549932

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Some Day Been Dey (RLE Folklore) by Loreto Todd Pdf

'Once upon a time' is the English translation of the title of this collection of twenty-eight Pidgin tales from Cameroon in West Africa, first published in 1979. These are richly illustrative of the various folklore genres of the region and are presented in a modified standard orthography, with an English translation facing the original Pidgin text. Notes are provided on each tale with the intention of illuminating some of their unique stylistic and linguistic patterns. The tales are often witty, never protracted, and are pleasurable in their own right. They also provide linguistic and folkloristic material not available elsewhere. In a lengthy introduction, Dr Todd discusses the history of Cameroon and the development and use of Pidgin English there. A simple grammar of Pidgin English is included to aid scholars not already familiar with the language to make full use of the Pidgin texts.

Author : Loreto Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134939305

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Pidgins and Creoles by Loreto Todd Pdf

The focus of this study is upon those pidgins and creoles which are English based and which have arisen since the fifteenth century. The book examines the widespread nature of the pidgin/creole phenomenon and evaluates the current definitions of the terms and the theories which have been advanced to account for their existence. The author considers the potential of pidgins and creoles as literary media and as vehicles for education. She looks at the sociological and psychological implications of using pidgins and creoles in the classroom and examines the position of American `Black English' and `London Jamaican' in the pidgin/creole continuum.