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Cameroon Pidgin English: a comprehensive grammar

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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:31 authored by Miriam Ayafor, Melanie GreenMelanie Green
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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  • Published

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Pages

314.0

Place of publication

Amsterdam

ISBN

9789027238269

Series

London Oriental and African Language Library (LOALL)

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  • English Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-09-14

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