Cameroon

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 Corpus and nature of the research -- 2 Nouns and noun phrases -- 2.1 Noun classes and genders -- 2.2 Gender system -- 2.3 Possessives -- 2.4 Demonstratives -- 2.5 Numerals -- 2.6 Quantifiers -- 2.7 Adjectives -- 2.8 Associative noun phrases -- 2.9 Compound nouns -- 2.10 Derivational morphology on noun roots -- 2.11 Relative clauses -- 3 Verbs and verb phrases -- 3.1 The Mungong verb -- 3.2 The structure of the verb phrase -- 3.3 Subject marking -- 3.4 Tense -- 3.5 Aspect -- 3.6 Verbal extensions -- 3.6.1 Causative -- 3.6.2 Distributive -- 3.7 Verb phrase level negation -- 3.8 Serial verb constructions -- 3.9 Adverbs -- 4 Clauses -- 4.1 Basic order of clause elements -- 4.2 Declarative clauses -- 4.2.1 Active clauses -- 4.2.2 Non-active clauses -- 4.3 Agent suppression -- 4.4 Focus -- 4.5 Interrogative clauses -- 4.5.1 Yes-no questions -- 4.5.2 Content questions -- 4.5.3 Tag questions -- 4.6 Mood -- 4.6.1 Imperative clauses -- 4.6.2 Hortative clauses -- 4.7 Coordinating clauses -- 4.7.1 Coupling -- 4.7.2 Alternating -- 4.7.3 Contrasting -- 4.7.4 Concessive -- 4.7.5 Conditional -- 4.7.6 Reason -- 4.7.7 Time -- 4.8 Complements -- 5 Conclusion -- References