Full 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.
Contents
1. Dedication; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Abbreviations and symbols; 4. Introduction; 5. History and sociolinguistics of CPE; 6. Phonetics, phonology and orthography; 7. The lexicon; 8. The syntax of the noun phrase; 9. Pronouns; 10. Tense, mood, modality, aspect and negation; 11. The simple sentence; 12. Complex predicates; 13. The complex sentence; 14. Information structure; 15. Selected texts; 15. Appendix: Participant data; 16. References
