Research mate in African linguistics : focus on Cameroon : a fieldworker's tool for deciphering the stories Cameroonian languages have to tell

"In honor of Professor Larry N.[sic] Hyman." Includes bibliographical references and index Pt.1: Phonology. Data building for a lexical phonology analysis of a Bantu language / Ngessimo M. Mutaka -- Curiosities in the phonology of Bantu A languages / Michel Kenmogne -- Phonological characteristics of Eastern Grassfields languages / Stephen C. Anderson -- Some phonological characteristics of Ejagham (Etung) an Ekoid Bantu language of Cameroon and Nigeria / John R. Watters -- An introduction to the Mambiloid languages / Bruce Connell -- Phonological features of Central Chadic languages / James S. Roberts -- Features of a Chadic language: the case of Mbuko phonology / Richard Gravina -- Pt.2: Syntax. Data building for a syntactic analysis of an African language / Edmond Biloa -- Issues in the syntax of Grassfields Bantu languages / Pius N. Tamanji -- Pt.3: Sociolinguistics. Reading notes on Wardhaugh's An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: an African perspective / Ngessimo M. Mutaka -- Squibs in sociolinguistics. Non-human objects as participants in speech acts within the Nso cultural society / Frida Kong -- Provoked thunder strikes in Bafut / Comfort Che Ngum -- Communication entre les hommes et les animaux dans le village Balengou à l'Ouest du Cameroun / Virginie Dangang -- La communication avec les êtres vivants, non-humains chez les Sanaga de Ngoro (Province du Centre, départment du Mbam & Kam) / Clotaire Mvakanga -- En dehors des êtres humains, qui peut parler dans notre culture? / Akeriweh -- Petit Nègre: un parler du français de la rue parlée au Cameroun / Antoine Owona -- L'inventaire des couleurs et la subdivision des jours, des mois et des années dans la culture màsà / Jonas K. Diokdi -- Functionnement des sociétés secrètes dans l'Ouest-Cameroun: le cas du famla / Louise A. Ngamngne -- Fon's acquisition of wives as a form of performative utterance. A case study of the grassfield cultures in the Northwest province of the Republic of Cameroon / Bonaventure M. Sala -- L'expression des sentiments lors de la courtoisie d'une fille chez les Balengou du Cameroun / Virginie Dangang -- Abuses in Nso' / Frida Kong -- Cérémonie d'exhumation dans le canton Bamendjou et aspects sociolinguistiques de l'exhumation dans ce canton / Juliette Clarisse Mabou Fodop -- La cérémonie de dot au Burundi / Jeanne Chantal Harerimana / L'acte d'accouchement et les rites qui l'entourent dans la société Burundaise / Jeanne Chantal Harerimana -- The announcement and fight of a natural calamity in Bafut / Comfort Che Ngum -- Les cérémonies d' initiation dans quelques tribus camerounaises (bafia, massa, bamiléké, betifang) / Clotaire Mvakang et al. -- Communication between the living and the dead in the Bamileke and the Kenyang cultures / Lucy Kenfac -- L'usage de parole chez les Bafang / Béatrice Kouémou -- The Doualas and their sea / Herman Misse -- La taxinomie du temps chez les Fe'fe' du Cameroun / Béatrice Kouémou -- Taboo and euphemistic expressions in Ewondo / Ndzengue Lucia Nassuna -- Pt.4: General interest. Basic standardization of all unwritten African languages / Maurice Tadadjeu -- Issues to investigate in Cameroonian linguistics / Ngessimo M. Mutaka and Emmanuel Chia -- Hints for solving a phonology problem / Ngessimo M. Mutaka -- Questionnaires and data gathering in phonology / Michel Kenmogne -- Guidelines for creating conference handouts / Myles Leitch and Ngessimo M. Mutaka (including an illustrative sample handout) Larry M. Hyman, Prosodic Conditions on Morphological Change, or: How to Become a "Kwa" Verb? (Workshop on Comparative Benue-Congo, Berkeley, March 26-27, 2001) -- Linguistic factors in orthography design / Keith Snider -- Tone in the infinitive in Kinande: an OT analysis / Akinbiyi Akinlabi and Ngessimo M. Mutaka -- Language index