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UNINA9910796517103321 |
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Autore |
Ayafor Miriam |
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Titolo |
Cameroon Pidgin English : a comprehensive grammar / / Miriam Ayafor, Melanie J. Green |
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Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables |
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Collana |
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London Oriental and African Language Library (LOALL), , 13823485 ; ; Volume 20 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Variation - Cameroon |
Pidgin English - Cameroon - Grammar |
Languages in contact - Cameroon |
English language - Cameroon - Grammar |
Cameroon Languages |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- List of maps and figures -- List of tables -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. History and sociolinguistics of CPE -- Chapter 3. Phonetics, phonology and orthography -- Chapter 4. The lexicon -- Chapter 5. The syntax of the noun phrase -- Chapter 6. Pronouns -- Chapter 7. Tense, mood, modality, aspect and negation -- Chapter 8. The simple sentence -- Chapter 9. Complex predicates -- Chapter 10. The complex sentence -- Chapter 11. Information structure -- Chapter 12. Selected texts -- Appendix: Participant data -- References -- Subject index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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