Cameroon

1 Introduction -- 1.1 Preliminary information -- 1.2 Verb phrase introduction -- 2 Clause structure -- 2.1 Grammatical relations -- 2.1.1 Subject -- 2.1.2 Object -- 2.2 Basic order of clause constituents -- 2.3 Verbal predicates -- 2.4 Predicate nominals -- 2.4.1 Inclusion and equation -- 2.4.2 Presentation -- 2.4.3 Location -- 2.4.4 Existence -- 2.4.5 Possession -- 2.5 Agent suppression -- 2.6 Multi-verb clauses -- 2.6.1 Direction (path) -- 2.6.2 Tense/aspect -- 2.6.3 Comparison -- 2.6.4 Manner -- 3 Sentence structure -- 3.1 Same Subject clause chains -- 3.1.1 Marking of Same Subject nasal -- 3.1.2 Negation and Same Subject clause chains -- 3.1.3 Same Subject clause chains versus multi-verb clauses -- 3.2 Independent clauses -- 3.2.1 Additive (“and-coordination”) -- 3.2.2 Contrastive (“but-coordination”) -- 3.2.3 Alternative (“or-coordination”) -- 3.2 Dependent clauses -- 3.3.1 Adverbial clauses -- 3.3.2 Relative clauses -- 3.3.3 Complement clauses -- References --