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Cameroon Pidgin English : a comprehensive grammar

Title: Cameroon Pidgin English : a comprehensive grammar / Miriam Ayafor, Melanie Green.
Author: Ayafor, Miriam
Publication: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Green, Melanie J.

Description

xiii, 314 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

London Oriental and African language library, 1382-3485 ; volume 20

Uniform Title

London Oriental and African language library ; v. 20.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

9789027238269
902723826X
9789027266033 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017009503

OCLC

ocn973920984
973920984
SCSB-8958955

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Columbia University Libraries