Cameroon Pidgin English : A Comprehensive Grammar.

Intro -- Cameroon Pidgin English -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of tables -- List of maps and figures -- Abbreviations and symbols -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Objectives -- 1.3 Classification of CPE -- 1.4 Previous research on CPE -- 1.5 Data collection methods -- 1.5.1 A spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English -- 1.5.2 Elicitation -- 1.5.3 Criteria for the selection of examples -- 1.5.4 A note on glossing and translation -- 1.6 Typological profile -- 1.6.1 Phonetics and phonology -- 1.6.2 Morphology -- 1.6.3 Word classes -- 1.6.4 Nominal categories and syntax -- 1.6.5 Basic constituent order -- 1.6.6 Case and grammatical functions -- 1.6.7 Verbal categories -- 1.6.8 Clause types -- 1.6.9 Verb serialisation -- 1.6.10 Complex sentences -- 1.6.11 Information structure -- 2. History and sociolinguistics of CPE -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Profile of modern Cameroon -- 2.3 Historical background of CPE -- 2.3.1 Portuguese influence -- 2.3.2 Early English influence -- 2.3.3 German annexation of Cameroon -- 2.3.4 French and British Cameroons -- 2.3.5 Independence and reunification -- 2.4 Sociolinguistic context of CPE -- 2.4.1 Input languages and lectal variation -- 2.4.2 Schröder's (2003a) survey -- 2.4.3 Current status and functions of CPE -- 2.5 A note on the name of the language -- 3. Phonetics, phonology and orthography -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Phoneme inventory -- 3.2.1 Vowels and diphthongs -- 3.2.2 Consonants -- 3.3 Syllable structure -- 3.4 Suprasegmental features -- 3.4.1 Stress and tone -- 3.4.2 Intonation -- 3.5 Orthography -- 4. The lexicon -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Formal processes -- 4.2.1 Coining -- 4.2.2 Novel morpheme combinations -- 4.2.3 Clipping -- 4.2.4 Reduplication -- 4.2.5 Tonal distinctions -- 4.2.6 Category change.

4.2.7 Valency change -- 4.2.8 Light verb strategy -- 4.3 Semantic processes -- 4.3.1 Semantic broadening -- 4.3.2 Semantic narrowing -- 4.3.3 Semantic shift -- 4.4 Substrate/adstrate expressions -- 4.4.1 Semantic fields -- 4.4.2 Calques -- 4.5 Word classes -- 4.5.1 Noun -- 4.5.2 Verb -- 4.5.3 Adjective -- 4.5.4 Adverb -- 4.5.5 Pronoun -- 4.5.6 Determiner -- 4.5.7 Numeral -- 4.5.8 Plural particle -- 4.5.9 Preposition -- 4.5.10 Copula -- 4.5.11 Preverbal particle (TMA/negation) -- 4.5.12 Complementiser and relativiser -- 4.5.13 Conjunction -- 4.5.14 Ideophone and interjection -- 4.6 Lectal variation -- 5. The syntax of the noun phrase -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Nominal categories -- 5.2.1 Proper noun and common noun -- 5.2.2 Count noun and mass noun: Number marking -- 5.3 The unmarked noun -- 5.4 Determiners -- 5.4.1 Definite determiner -- 5.4.2 Specific indefinite determiner -- 5.4.3 Quantificational determiner -- 5.4.4 Demonstrative determiner -- 5.4.5 Possessive determiner -- 5.4.6 Interrogative determiner -- 5.5 Nominal premodifiers -- 5.5.1 Attributive adjective phrase -- 5.5.2 Premodifying noun -- 5.6 Nominal postmodifier -- 5.6.1 Prepositional postmodifier -- 5.6.2 Relative clause -- 5.7 Nominal complements (possessive) -- 5.8 Alternative possessive construction -- 6. Pronouns -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Personal pronouns -- 6.2.1 Pronouns in subject/clause-initial position -- 6.2.2 Pronouns in complement position -- 6.3 Demonstrative pronouns -- 6.4 Possessive pronouns -- 6.5 Interrogative pronouns/adverbs -- 6.6 Reflexive and reciprocal pronouns -- 6.7 Indefinite pronouns -- 7. Tense, mood, modality, aspect and negation -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Tense and time -- 7.2.1 Infinitive -- 7.2.2 The unmarked verb: Past and non-past -- 7.2.3 Anterior tense -- 7.2.4 Future time reference -- 7.3 Grammatical aspect -- 7.3.1 Perfective aspect.

7.3.2 Imperfective aspect -- 7.4 Irrealis mood -- 7.5 Modality -- 7.5.1 Event modality: Deontic and dynamic -- 7.5.2 Propositional modality: Epistemic -- 7.6 Clausal negation -- 7.7 Co-occurrence of preverbal TMA and negation particles -- 8. The simple sentence -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The declarative clause type: Basic constituent order -- 8.3 Alignment and case -- 8.4 Grammatical functions -- 8.4.1 Subject and predicate -- 8.4.2 Object -- 8.4.3 Subject predicative complement -- 8.4.4 Object predicative complement -- 8.4.5 Prepositional complement -- 8.4.6 Adverbial -- 8.5 The copular clause -- 8.5.1 Identity 'bi' clause -- 8.5.2 Locative/existential deiy clause -- 8.5.3 Non-verbal 'na' clause -- 8.5.4 Attributive 'zero-copula' clause -- 8.6 The imperative, prohibitive and hortative clause types -- 8.7 The interrogative clause -- 8.7.1 The polar interrogative clause -- 8.7.2 The constituent interrogative clause -- 8.7.3 Echo questions -- 9. Complex predicates -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Serial verb construction -- 9.2.1 Defining the SVC -- 9.2.2 Motion SVC -- 9.2.3 Valency increasing SVC -- 9.2.4 Aspectual SVC -- 9.2.5 Modality SVC -- 9.2.6 Degree (comparative) SVC -- 9.2.7 Symmetrical SVC -- 9.2.8 Interim summary -- 9.3 Light verb construction -- 9.3.1 Defining the LVC -- 9.3.2 'Make' LVC -- 9.3.3 'Give' LVC -- 9.3.4 'Take' LVC -- 9.3.5 'Do' LVC -- 9.3.6 'Get' LVC -- 9.4 Grammaticalisation -- 10. The complex sentence -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Co-ordination -- 10.3 Subject clauses -- 10.4 Complement clauses -- 10.4.1 Finite complement clauses -- 10.4.2 Non-finite complement clauses -- 10.5 Adverbial clauses -- 10.5.1 Temporal clauses -- 10.5.2 Locative clauses -- 10.5.3 Manner clauses -- 10.5.4 Purpose clauses -- 10.5.5 Reason clauses -- 10.5.6 Conditional clauses -- 10.5.7 Concessive clauses -- 10.6 Relative clauses -- 10.6.1 Subject relatives.

10.6.2 Direct object relatives -- 10.6.3 Indirect object relatives -- 10.6.4 Oblique (prepositional complement) relatives -- 10.6.5 Genitive relatives -- 10.6.6 Object of comparison relatives -- 10.6.7 Adverbial relatives -- 11. Information structure -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Topic -- 11.2.1 Topic pronouns -- 11.2.2 Topic phrases -- 11.3 Focus -- 11.3.1 The cleft construction -- 11.3.2 The focus fronting construction -- 11.3.3 Focus in situ -- 11.3.4 Repeat pronoun focus construction -- 11.3.5 The pseudopassive construction -- 12. Selected texts -- 12.1 Monologue: 75-year-old female subsistence farmer -- Translation -- 12.2 Monologue: 66-year-old male imam/grazier -- Translation -- 12.3 Monologue: 28-year-old female house-help -- Translation -- 12.4 Monologue: 38-year-old male conservationist -- Translation -- 12.5 Dialogue: 29-year-old female tailor and 40-year-old female hairdresser -- Translation -- 12.6 Written text: Excerpt from CPE Bible, 'Good Nyus fo Ol Pipol' -- Translation ('New Living Translation Bible') -- Appendix: Participant data -- References -- Subject index.

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