Cameroon

Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- Abbreviations for Text References -- 1. Variations in the Order of Clause Constituents -- 1.1 Nuclear Constituents -- 1.1.1 Basic Word Order in Affirmative Clauses -- 1.1.2 Word Order in Negative Clauses -- 1.2 Preposing of Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Constituents -- 1.3 Post-Nuclear Constituents -- 2. Grounding -- 2.1 Foreground Information: Eventline -- 2.1.1 Ideophones -- 2.1.2 The Perfective Aspect -- 2.1.3 Phasal Verbs -- 2.2 Backgrounding -- 2.2.1 The Imperfective Aspect -- 2.2.2 The Habitual Aspect -- 2.2.3 The Anterior Marker -- 2.3 Tail-Head Linkage -- 3. Sentence Articulations -- 3.1 The Topic Marker -- 3.2 Emphatic Topic -- 3.2.1 Fronting for Emphatic Topic -- 3.2.2 Emphatic Subject -- 3.3 Presentational Articulation -- 4. Connectives -- 4.1 Conjunctions -- 4.1.1 Comitative: nda/na -- 4.1.2 Countering: ama and sey -- 4.2.3 Implication: ade and agəra -- 4.2 Additives -- 4.3 Developmentals -- 4.3.1 aleka -- 4.3.2 i dəba ŋa ya -- 4.3.3 koɗa -- 5. Participant Reference -- 5.1 Introduction of Major Participants -- 5.2 Further Reference to Participants -- 5.3 Determiners -- 5.3.1 ŋa -- 5.3.2 ye -- 5.3.3 Demonstratives -- 6. Quoted Conversations -- 6.1 Speech Margins -- 6.2 Direct and Indirect Speech -- 7. Subordinate Clauses -- 7.1 Brand-new information in Subordinate Clauses -- 7.2 Information Flow -- 7.3 Relative Clauses -- Appendix: Monkey and Squirrel