Documentation and description of languages of Lower Fungom—Materials Page

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Papers and sketches

Manuscripts

What are we trying to preserve? Diversity, change, and ideology at the edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields”. (by Pierpaolo Di Carlo and Jeff Good).

To appear

Tonal Variation in the tense system of Mundabli, Western Beboid (Bantoid, Cameroon)”. (by Rebecca Voll). To appear in the proceedings of the sixth World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 6).

2011

“The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview”. (by Jeff Good, Jesse Lovegren, Jean Patrick Mve, Carine Nguanguep Tchiemouo, Rebecca Voll, and Pierpaolo Di Carlo) To appear in Africana Linguistica.

“Lower Fungom linguistic diversity and its historical development: Proposals from a multidisciplinary perspective”. (by Pierpaolo Di Carlo) To appear in Africana Linguistica.

Please contact Jeff Good (jcgood@buffalo.edu) if you are interested in seeing prepublication versions of the above two papers.

The linguistic phonetic properties of Mungbam vowels, and their areal-historical and theoretical significance”. (by Jesse Lovegren). Qualifying paper, University at Buffalo, Department of Linguistics.

2010

A sketch of the Ajumbu [muc] noun class system”. (by Jeff Good; draft)

A sketch of the Naki [mff] noun class system”. (by Jeff Good; draft)