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Ayafor, Miriam and Green, Melanie (2017) Cameroon Pidgin English: a comprehensive grammar. London Oriental and African Language Library (LOALL) . John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam. ISBN 9789027238269
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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.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Schools and Departments: | School of English > English |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > P0101 Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania > PL8000 African languages and literature |
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| Depositing User: | Melanie Green |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2015 15:01 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2020 16:10 |
| URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/56756 |