Cameroon Pidgin English : a comprehensive grammar / / Miriam Ayafor, Melanie J. Green

• Autore: Ayafor Miriam
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps, tables
• Disciplina: 427.96711
• Soggetto topico: English language - Variation - Cameroon; Pidgin English - Cameroon - Grammar; Languages in contact - Cameroon; English language - Cameroon - Grammar
• Soggetto geografico: Cameroon Languages
• Persona (resp. second.): GreenMelanie J.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cameroon Pidgin English
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796517103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: London Oriental and African language library ; ; Volume 20.