Cameroon Pidgin English : A comprehensive grammar Hardback
by Miriam (University of Yaounde 1) Ayafor, Melanie (University of Sussex) Green
Part of the London Oriental and African Language Library series
Hardback
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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:314 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:15/08/2017
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- ISBN:9789027238269
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:314 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Co
- Publication Date:15/08/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027238269
