A Sketch Grammar of the Nchane Language
Issue Date:
2010
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iv, 38 pages
Description:
Nchane is a language spoken in the Misaje-Subdivision, Donga-Mantung Division,
North West Region of Cameroon, West Africa. Dieu and Renaud (1983) in the Atlas
Linquistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) list the language as: Ncane [873]. The Ethnologue
(Gordon 2005) lists the following as language name variations: Ncane, Nchanti, Ntshanti,
Cane (ISO 639-3 language code: ncr).
Publication Status:
Published
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1 Introduction --
1.1 Name of the language --
1.2 Genetic affiliation --
1.3 Sociolinguistic situation --
1.4 Corpus and nature of the research --
2 Nouns and noun phrases --
2.1 Types of nouns and their structures --
2.2 Functions of noun morphology --
2.4 Elements in the noun phrase --
3 Verbs and Verb Phrases --
3.1 Verbs and their structures --
3.2 Functions of verb morphology --
3.3 The structure of the verb phrase -- 3.4 Elements in the verb phrase --
4 Clauses -- 4.1 Basic clause types and their structures -- 5 Conclusion
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43200