Conditional Clauses In Shupamem

This paper describes the structure of conditional clauses in Shupamem, a Grassfield Bantu language spoken in the West region of Cameroon. The analysis of the empirical data collected from selected Shupamem native speakers revealed that Shupamem makes use of discontinuous morphemes to mark conditional constructions. The structure of these morphemes depends on (i) the branching configuration between the conditional clause and the main clause, and (ii) the tense feature of the conditional clause’ finite verb. The structure Cond.