LEADER 05556nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910815130703321 005 20240313161621.0 010 $a1-283-00493-3 010 $a9786613004932 010 $a9956-579-74-2 010 $a9956-579-72-6 010 $a9956-579-15-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079583 035 $a(EBL)1135064 035 $a(OCoLC)830166154 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000673636 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11381685 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000673636 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10645124 035 $a(PQKB)10032521 035 $a(OCoLC)715154282 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21899 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1135064 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10448544 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL300493 035 $a(PPN)249684144 035 $a(FR-PaCSA)88866819 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1135064 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079583 100 $a20050127d2011 ky 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKingdom of Mankon $easpects of history, language, culture, flora and fauna /$fChristopher Che Chi 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMankon, Bamenda $cLangaa Research & Pub. CIG$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (372 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-578-09-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Tables and Figures; Signs and sounds used in this book; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: Mankon geographical location and history; 1.1. Origin of the word ""Mankon""; 1.2. Geographical setting; 1.3. Origin and migration of the people; 1.4. The Mankon confederacy; 1.5. Mankon colonial contacts; 1.6. Migrant settlers in Mankon; Chapter Two: Mankon political, economic and social structure; 2.1. Mankon traditional rule; 2.2. Enstoolment; 2.3. Economy; 2.4. Social aspect; 2.5. Religion; 2.5.1. A ritual: from Ala'nkyi to Samni 327 $a2.5.2. A brief history of Ala'nkyi2.5.3. The Nkyi?mali; 2.5.4. Back on the hill; 2.5.5. After Ala'nkyi; 2.5.6. The Musongong rite; 2.5.7. The Dance proper; 2.6. The Mankon language; Chapter Three: Mankon Phonology; 3.1. Phonetics; 3.1.1. Identification and classification of sounds; 3.1.2. Description of the sounds; 3.1.3. Position of sound occurrence in a word; 3.1.4. Comments; 3.1.5. Mankon alphabet; 3.2. Distinctive features: phonemes; 3.3. Phonemes vs. allophones; 3.4. Assimilation, elision and deletion; 3.5. A review of sound distribution; 3.5.1. C1 and C2 Consonants; 3.5.2. Vowels 327 $a3.6. Vowel elision and deletion 3.6.1. Elision; 3.6.2. Deletion; 3.7. Some Mankon morphophonemic rules; 3.7.1. Nouns; 3.7.2. Verbs; 3.8. Reduplication; 3.9. Morphological function of Mankon reduplicants; 3.10. Mankon phonotactics; 3.10.1 The concept of phonotactics; 3.10.2. Mankon syllabic structure; 3.11. Mankon tonology; 3.11.1. level tones; 3.11.2. Grammatical tones; 3.11.3. Super high tone; 3.11.4. Contour tones; 3.11.5. Some uses of tone; 3.12 Autosegmental phonology; Chapter Four: Mankon Orthography; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Orthographic principles; 4.3. Mankon tone ortography 327 $a4.4. Ways of limiting tone marking in Mankon 4.5. Orthographic Depth vs. Grain Size Theory; Chapter Five: Morphology; 5.1. The notion of morphology; 5.1.1. Derivational morpheme; 5.1.2. Inflectional morpheme / declension; 5.1.3. Free morpheme; 5.1.4. Bound morpheme; 5.1.5. Lexical Morpheme; 5.1.6. Functional morpheme; 5.1.7. Affixation; 5.2. Word formation; 5.2.1. Loaning / Borrowing; 5.2.2. Compounding; 5.2.3. Affixation; 5.3. Parts of speech / Word classes; 5.3.1. Nouns; 5.3.2. Quantifiers; 5.3.3. Partitives; 5.3.4. Articles; 5.3.5. Quantity: every, all, the whole 327 $a5.3.6. Quantity: small, a little 5.3.7. Quantity: much, a lot of, plenty of; 5.3.8. Quantity: enough; 5.3.9. Quantity: No, nothing; 5.4. Noun classes and pronouns; 5.5. Pronouns; 5.5.1. Nominative; 5.5.2. Accusative; 5.5.3. Dative; 5.5.4. Reflexive; 5.6. Noun agreement with adjectives; 5.7 Associative or genitive constructions; 5.7.1. Singular; 5.7.2. Plural; 5.8. Verbs; 5.9. Adverbs; 5.10. Preposition; 5.11. Negation; 5.12. Only; 5.13. Mood; 5.14. What / Which; 5.15. Colours; Chapter Six: The proverb in Mankon; 6.1 Purpose of study; 6.2. Methodology, data collection and analysis 327 $a6.2.1. Methodology 330 $aThis book is a descriptive and documentary analysis of the Mankon I-language and E-language mirrored through aspects of history, geography, flora and fauna. These aspects manifest in the taxonomic nomenclatures attributed to referents in society. Because these referents were hitherto transmitted orally from generation to generation, the author has painstakingly analysed and documented aspects of Mankon culture for posterity. The work focuses in particular on Mankon proverbs for insights into the structure and function of the language. As a vehicle of communication, language plays a primordial 606 $aArt, Cameroonian$zCameroon$zMankon 606 $aDecorative arts$zCameroon$zMankon 607 $aMankon (Cameroon)$xCivilization 607 $aMankon (Cameroon)$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aArt, Cameroonian 615 0$aDecorative arts 700 $aChi$b Christopher Che$01614444 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815130703321 996 $aKingdom of Mankon$93944264 997 $aUNINA