A descriptive grammar of Bafut
Pius N. Tamanji, "A descriptive grammar of Bafut"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 3896455516 | 240 pages | MOBI / EPUB / PDF | 16.3 MB
English | 2009 | ISBN: 3896455516 | 240 pages | MOBI / EPUB / PDF | 16.3 MB
A Descriptive Grammar of Bafut, a Grassfields Bantu language spoken by approximately 105,000 people in Cameroon (as of 2005), integrates in a single volume some of the major areas of the structure of the Bafut language that have been intriguing to researchers in the past. The language is a part of the geographically defined group of languages in the grassfields of Cameroon with to some extend Bantu-like characteristics (Bantuid classified). The introduction identifies the language and ist speakers. Chapters 1 and 2 cover the sound system and noun classification while chapter 3 provides an interesting account of noun formation processes including an interesting derivational process which involves the use of a negation prefix. Chapter four contains a detailed description of the pronoun system and chapter 5 covers the noun phrase with an impressive categorization of genitive constructions. Chapter 6 describes verb morphology with a detailed and interesting coverage of verb tone classes an