Cameroon

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Name, Location, and Speakers -- 1.2 Classification -- 1.3 Previous Linguistic Research -- 1.4 Dialects -- 1.5 Language Vitality / Multilingualism -- 1.6 Orthography -- 1.6.1 Consonants -- 1.6.2 Vowels -- 1.6.3 Tone -- 2. The Noun and Noun Phrase -- 2.1 Noun -- 2.1.1 Noun Class -- 2.1.2 Nominal Derivation -- 2.1.3 Agreement -- 2.2 Pronouns -- 2.2.1 Personal pronouns -- 2.2.2 Possessive pronouns -- 2.2.3 Relative pronouns -- 2.3 Noun Modifiers -- 2.3.1 Demonstratives -- 2.3.2 Possessives -- 2.3.3 Other agreeing items -- 2.3.4 Associative construction -- 2.3.5 Diminutive / Augmentative -- 2.3.6 Names -- 2.4 Order in the noun phrase -- 2.5 Prepositions -- 2.6 Conjoined Noun Phrases -- 3. The Verb and Verb Phrase -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Base and Derived form -- 3.1.2 “Infinitive” -- 3.1.3 The Verbal Word -- 3.2 Verb Stem and Verbal Derivation -- 3.2.1 Reflexive: leŋ -- 3.2.2 Causative: sɨ -- 3.2.3 Repetitive: ­tɨ -- 3.2.4 Pluractional: ­kɨ -- 3.2.5 Iterative: ­yɨ -- 3.2.6 Collective: ­lá -- 3.2.7 Frozen Extensions -- 3.3 Subject Agreement -- 3.4 Tense -- 3.4.1 Present – 3.4.2 Past -- 3.4.3 Future (F1 and F2) -- 3.5 Aspect -- 3.5.1 Progressive -- 3.5.2 Persistive: ká­ -- 3.5.3 Incipient: tí -- 3.5.4 Habitual lα’ -- 3.6 Mode -- 3.6.1 Negation -- 3.6.2 Subjunctive -- 3.6.3 Imperative – 3.7 Participle -- 3.8 Verbal Complements -- 3.8.1 Full phrase complement -- 3.8.2 Reduced (verbal noun) complements -- 3.9 Compound constructions -- 3.9.1 Full Phrase Complement -- 3.9.2 Verbal Noun Complement -- 3.9.3 Locative Plus Infinitive Complement -- 4. Clause -- 4.1 Structure of the simple clause -- 4.2 Non verbal Predicates -- 4.3 Questions -- 4.4 Quotative -- 4.5 Relative clause -- 4.6 Focus clauses -- 5. Conclusion -- 5.1 Summary -- 5.2 Residue / further research -- References