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Cameroon Pidgin English
Miriam AyaforMelanie Green
其他書名
A comprehensive grammar
出版John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017-12-15
主題Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
ISBN90272660349789027266033
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Yx8-DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.