Cameroon

A Sketch Grammar of the Nchane Language

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2010
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iv, 38 pages
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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).
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Published
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations -- 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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Entry Number:
43200