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A Grammar of Akoose

A Grammar of Akoose
Author: Robert Hedinger
Publisher: Sil International, Global Publishing
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2008
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

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The purpose of this book is to describe the grammatical structure of Akoose, also known as Bakossi, one of the north-western most narrow-Bantu languages of Cameroon. The book is aimed at both linguists with an interest in African and in particular Bantu languages as well as a local audience interested in their own language.


The verb in Akoose

The verb in Akoose
Author: Michael Etuge Apuge
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 2140198190

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The Verb in Akoose: descriptive and theoretical perspectives discusses an aspect of grammar, namely the verb, in a narrow-Bantu language spoken in Cameroon. The book combines descriptive and theoretical perspectives, but it intends primarily to serve a theoretical purpose. The analysis illustrates how morphology interacts with syntax to trigger the movement of syntactic units (object shift and verb raising) in Akoose within the ambits of the Minimalist Program.


Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon
Author: Mark Dike DeLancey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 831
Release: 2019-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1538119684

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Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.


The Bafaw Language

The Bafaw Language
Author: N. Chia
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2010-12-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9956579629

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The Bafaw Language (Bantu A10) is a product of the language research programme of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Buea. It is the first serious piece of work on this highly endangered language, and aims to account generally for the data of Bafaw. The work therefore lays the foundation for more advanced work in the future. It provides a description of: the phonology, i.e. the sound system; the morphology or lexis; and the syntax of the Bafaw language. The work goes far beyond to provide a sociolinguistic survey of the Bafaw language community, and offers a discussion of functional literacy in Bafaw, the development of an orthography and the thematic glossary of the language. The book provides a useful resource for the Bafaw language development and an inspiration for further research and scholarship.


Tense and Aspect in Bantu

Tense and Aspect in Bantu
Author: Derek Nurse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2008-07-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199239290

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Derek Nurse looks at variations in the form and function of tense and aspect in Bantu, a branch of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language phylum. His account is based on data from more than 200 Bantu languages and varieties, a representative sample of which is freely available on the publisher's website.


Ideophones and the Evolution of Language

Ideophones and the Evolution of Language
Author: John Haiman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2018-01-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 110818457X

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Ideophones have been recognized in modern linguistics at least since 1935, but they still lie far outside the concerns of mainstream (Western) linguistic debate, in part because they are most richly attested in relatively unstudied (often unwritten) languages. The evolution of language, on the other hand, has recently become a fashionable topic, but all speculations so far have been almost totally data-free. Without disputing the tenet that there are no primitive languages, this book argues that ideophones may be an atavistic throwback to an earlier stage of communication, where sounds and gestures were paired in what can justifiably be called a 'prelinguistic' fashion. The structure of ideophones may also provide answers to deeper questions, among them how communicative gestures may themselves have emerged from practical actions. Moreover, their current distribution and behaviour provide hints as to how they may have become conventional words in languages with conventional rules.


On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar

On reconstructing Proto-Bantu grammar
Author: Koen Bostoen
Publisher: Language Science Press
Total Pages: 862
Release: 2023-03-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3961104069

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This book is about reconstructing the grammar of Proto-Bantu, the ancestral language at the origin of current-day Bantu languages. While Bantu is a low-level branch of Niger-Congo, the world’s biggest phylum, it is still Africa’s biggest language family. This edited volume attempts to retrieve the phonology, morphology and syntax used by the earliest Bantu speakers to communicate with each other, discusses methods to do so, and looks at issues raised by these academic endeavours. It is a collective effort involving a fine mix of junior and senior scholars representing several generations of expert historical-comparative Bantu research. It is the first systematic approach to Proto-Bantu grammar since Meeussen’s Bantu Grammatical Reconstructions (1967). Based on new bodies of evidence from the last five decades, most notably from northwestern Bantu languages, this book considerably transforms our understanding of Proto-Bantu grammar and offers new methodological approaches to Bantu grammatical reconstruction.


Morphosyntax

Morphosyntax
Author: William Croft
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 725
Release: 2022-08-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107093635

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Taking a functional approach, this book provides a thorough overview of Morphosyntax, and sets out a framework for syntactic constructions.


A History of African Linguistics

A History of African Linguistics
Author: H. Ekkehard Wolff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2019-06-13
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1108417973

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The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.