Sociolinguistic and Structural Aspects of Cameroon Creole English

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Sociolinguistic and Structural Aspects of Cameroon Creole English

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Based on current data, the book provides a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, with a special focus on aspects that are often used in creolistic literature as putative defining features of bona fide prototypical creoles. It is the first comprehensive research monograph on the language that describes and situates its sociolinguistic and structural aspects within the context of current creolistic debate and answers the following unanswered questions: How is the evolutionary trajectory of the language and which theory of pidgins and creoles genesis best accounts for its origin and development? What is its current sociolinguistic status? Is the language a pidgin or a creole? What is the typological distance between the language and its main lexifier? What is its relationship with the other West African contact languages and other creole languages? In spite of the controversy that characterizes the field of creolistics regarding the defining characteristics of pidgins and creoles, the book suggests, for instance, that, if the different routes to creolization are recognized, it will be much easier to come up with putative characteristics that define the developmental status of any contact language, as is the case with Cameroon Creole English.

About the Author

Aloysius Ngefac is Associate Professor of English and Sociolinguistics at the Higher Teacher Training College Yaounde of the University of Yaounde 1, where he earned his PhD. He is the recipient of a number of awards and scholarships, including Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship, and DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). He is the author of Social Differentiation in Cameroon English (Peter Lang, New York, 2008) and many scholarly articles.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents;
Foreword;
Author's Preface;
List of Abbreviations and Symbols;

Chapter One; 1. Background; 1.1 Objectives; 1.2 Research questions; 1.3 Scope; 1.4 Sociolinguistic, creolistic and structural significance; 1.5 Methodology; 1.6 Structure of the work and highlights;

Chapter Two; 2. Introduction; 2.1 Earlier impressionistic views about pidgins and creoles; 2.2 Theories of genesis; 2.3 Defining characteristics of jargons, pidgins, pidgincreoles and creoles; 2.4 Conclusion;

Chapter Three; 3. Introduction; 3.1 The origin and developmental itinerary of Cameroon Creole English. 3.2 Cameroon Creole English within the sociolinguistic realities of its habitat3.3 Conclusion;

Chapter Four; 4. Introduction; 4.1 Is Cameroon Creole English an impoverished offspring of its main lexifier?; 4.2 Is Cameroon Creole English a pidgin or a creole?; 4.3 Cameroon Creole English and the impact of a renewed contact with English, its main lexifier; 4.4 Conclusion;

Chapter Five; 5. Introduction; 5.1 An appraisal of the English orthography for Cameroon Creole English; 5.2 An appraisal of a phonetically based orthography. 5.3 An orthography that befits the aspects of Cameroon Creole English5.4 Conclusion;

Chapter Six; 6. Introduction; 6.1 Phonological Variation; 6.2 Lexical Variation; 6.3 Morphological Variation; 6.4 Syntactic Variation; 6.5 Semantic Variation; 6.6 Conclusion;

Chapter Seven; 7. Introduction; 7.1 Cameroon Creole English Vowels; 7.2 The consonant system of Cameroon Creole English; 7.3 Syllable structure; 7.4 Tone and stress; 7.5 Conclusion;

Chapter Eight; 8. Introduction; 8.1 Cameroon Creole English verbal system; 8.2 Subordination; 8.3 The structure of Cameroon Creole English simple sentence. 8.4 Conclusion

Chapter Nine; 9. Overview; 9.1 Highlights of the findings; 9.2 Synopsis and the political/pedagogic implications of the findings; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; References; Index.