Cameroon

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 Name of the Language -- 1.2 Genetic Affiliation -- 1.3 Sociolinguistic Situation -- 1.3.1 Demography -- 1.3.2 Viability -- 1.3.3 Language Attitudes -- 1.3.4 Multilingualism -- 1.4 Summary of Previous Research -- 1.5 Corpus and Nature of the Research -- 2 NOUNS AND NOUN PHRASES -- 2.1 Types of Nouns and their Structures -- 2.1.1 Proper Names -- 2.1.2 Derived Nouns -- 2.1.3 Compound Nouns -- 2.2 The Structure of the Noun Phrase -- 2.3 Elements in the Noun Phrase -- 2.3.1 Possessives -- 2.3.2 Demonstratives -- 2.3.3 Definite Article -- 2.3.4 Numerals -- 2.3.5 Non-numeral quantifiers -- 2.3.6 Adjectives -- 2.3.7 Relative Clause.... 17 -- 2.3.8 Personal Pronouns -- 2.3.9 Associative Noun Phrase -- 2.4 Phrase Level Particles - Conjunctions -- 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 -- 3.4.1 Tense -- 3.4.1.1 Remote Past -- 3.4.1.2 Medial Past -- 3.4.1.3 Immediate Past -- 3.4.1.4 Present -- 3.4.1.5 Future -- 3.4.2 Aspect -- 3.4.2.1 Perfect -- 3.4.2.2 Progressive -- 3.4.2.3 Habitual -- 3.4.3 Verb Phrase Level Negation -- 3.4.4 Adverbs -- 3.4.5 Complements -- 3.4.6 Causatives -- 3.4.7 Reciprocals and Reflexives -- 4. OTHER PHRASES - PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE......27 -- 5. CLAUSES -- 5.1 General Clause Structure -- 5.2 Basic Clause Types and their Structures -- 5.2.1 Declarative Clauses -- 5.2.2 Imperative Clauses -- 5.2.3 Interrogative Clauses -- 5.2.3.1 Yes/No Questions -- 5.2.3.2 Content Questions -- 5.3 Functions of Elements in the Clause -- 5.3.1 Grammatical Relations -- 5.3.2 Adverbial Elements -- 5.3.3 Clause Level Particles -- 5.3.3.1 Conjunctions -- 5.3.3.2 Quotative Particle -- 6. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES