Cameroon Pidgin English : a comprehensive grammar
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Cameroon Pidgin English : a comprehensive grammar
(London Oriental and African language library, v. 20)
John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2017
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-307) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Dedication
- 2. Acknowledgments
- 3. Abbreviations and symbols
- 4. Introduction
- 5. History and sociolinguistics of CPE
- 6. Phonetics, phonology and orthography
- 7. The lexicon
- 8. The syntax of the noun phrase
- 9. Pronouns
- 10. Tense, mood, modality, aspect and negation
- 11. The simple sentence
- 12. Complex predicates
- 13. The complex sentence
- 14. Information structure
- 15. Selected texts
- 15. Appendix: Participant data
- 16. References
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