A grammar of Nchane - A Bantoid (Beboid) language of Cameroon

Acknowledgements
Contents
List of tables
List of figures
List of abbreviations
List of symbols
Lists of affixes and particles
Chapter 1 Introduction
	1.1 Language ecology
		1.1.1 Ethnography
		1.1.2 Sociolinguistic picture
		1.1.3 Language context
		1.1.4 The Mungong question
	1.2 Previous research and relevant literature
	1.3 Research situation
		1.3.1 Nature of the data corpus
		1.3.2 Language consultants
		1.3.3 Presentation of the data
	1.4 Organization of description
Chapter 2 Phonology
	2.1 Consonants
		2.1.1 Consonants with difficult analyses
		2.1.2 Phonetic descriptions of consonants
			2.1.2.1 Plosives
			2.1.2.2 Fricatives
			2.1.2.3 Nasals
			2.1.2.4 Approximants
		2.1.3 Consonant minimal pairs
		2.1.4 Consonant-glide sequences
			2.1.4.1 Cw sequences
			2.1.4.2 Cy sequences
		2.1.5 Nasal-consonant sequences
			2.1.5.1 General phonetic properties and distribution of nasal-consonant sequences
			2.1.5.2 Sources of nasal-consonant sequences
	2.2 Vowels
		2.2.1 Fricative vowel
		2.2.2 Phonetic descriptions of short oral vowels
		2.2.3 Contrastive sets for short oral vowels
		2.2.4 Nasal vowels
		2.2.5 Vowel length
	2.3 Phonotactics
		2.3.1 Syllable structure
			Nouns
			Verbs
		2.3.2 Distributional Restrictions
			Restrictions on consonants
			Restrictions on vowels
Chapter 3 Phonological processes
	3.1 Nasal place assimilation
	3.2 Front high vowel laxing
	3.3 Glide formation
	3.4 Compensatory vowel lengthening
	3.5 Vowel copying
	3.6 Spirantization
Chapter 4 Tone
	4.1 Tone inventory
	4.2 Functions of tone
	4.3 Tone distribution patterning
	4.4 Phonetic realization of tone
	4.5 Tone of gender 9/10 nouns
	4.6 Tonal processes
		4.6.1 Downdrift
		4.6.2 Downstep
		4.6.3 M tone lowering
		4.6.4 Phrase-final boundary rules
		4.6.5 H raising
Chapter 5 Nouns
	5.1 Previous analyses of the Nchane noun class system
	5.2 Noun classes
		5.2.1 Noun class nominal marking
			Classes 1 and 2
			Classes 3 and 4
			Classes 3 and 13
			Classes 5 and 6
			Classes 5 and 13
			Classes 7 and 8
			Classes 9 and 10
			Classes 14 and 6a
			Classes 19 and 18a
		5.2.2 Gender and lexical membership
		5.2.3 Derivational classes
			Class 14
			Class 19
			Class 16
			Class 18
	5.3 Compound nouns
	5.4 Borrowed nouns
	5.5 Nominalization
Chapter 6 Noun phrase structure and nominal modifiers
	6.1 Simple noun phrases
	6.2 Complex noun phrases
		6.2.1 Conjoined noun phrases
		6.2.2 Associative noun phrases
	6.3 Agreement
	6.4 Nominal modifiers
		6.4.1 Possessive Pronouns
		6.4.2 Demonstratives
			Spatial demonstratives
			Anaphoric demonstratives
			Cross-linguistic and historical observations of the demonstrative system
		6.4.3 Quantifiers
		6.4.4 “Some”
		6.4.5 Numbers
		6.4.6 Adjectives
	6.5 Nominal modifiers as pronouns
	6.6 Noun phrase word order
Chapter 7 Pronouns
	7.1 Personal pronouns
	7.2 Locative pronouns
	7.3 Adverbial pronouns nɔ̀ and nē
	7.4 The impersonal subject pronoun
	7.5 Dummy subject
	7.6 Question word pronouns
	7.7 Other pronominals
Chapter 8 Other word classes
	8.1 Prepositions
		8.1.1 fɛ̀ ‘at’
		8.1.2 à ‘in’
		8.1.3 yè ‘on’
		8.1.4 m̄bémbé ‘near’
		8.1.5 kɔ̀nɛ̀ ‘about’
	8.2 The Comitative conjunction/preposition bɛ́
	8.3 Interjections
	8.4 Ideophones
	8.5 Quotable gestures
	8.6 Locational adverbs
	8.7 Temporal adverbial constructions
Chapter 9 The verb and verb complex
	9.1 Verbal morphology
		9.1.1 Subject agreement
		9.1.2 Progressive
		9.1.3 Distributive
		9.1.4 Causative
	9.2 The Irrealis/Imperfective H tone
		9.2.1 Imperative
		9.2.2 Hortative
	9.3 Preverbal elements
		9.3.1 Tense
		9.3.2 Perfect
		9.3.3 Habitual
		9.3.4 The Durative and Sequential marker tú
		9.3.5 Resultative
		9.3.6 Situative
		9.3.7 Still
		9.3.8 Iterative
	9.4 Postverbal adverbs
		Quickly
		Well
		Reduplicated infinitives
		Much
		Very
		Already
	9.5 Other adverbs
		Exclusive
		Also
		Counter-expectation
	9.6 Attributive verbs
Chapter 10 Nonverbal predicates and copulas
	10.1 Copulas
		10.1.1 lé ‘cop’
		10.1.2 ɲù ‘cop(n)’
	10.2 Nominal predicates
	10.3 Comitative predicates
	10.4 Prepositional phrases as predicate
	10.5 Numeral predicates
	10.6 Adjectival Predicates
Chapter 11 Clause structure
	11.1 Syntactic constituent types
		11.1.1 Formally unmarked constituents
			Subject
			Object
		11.1.2 Formally marked constituents
			Applied Object
			Comitative Obliques
			Locative Obliques
		11.1.3 The applicative postposition lē
	11.2 Argument frames
		11.2.1 One-constituent clauses
		11.2.2 Two-constituent clauses
		11.2.3 Three-constituent clauses
		11.2.4 Alternative argument frames
	11.3 Order of clausal constituents
	11.4 Clausal constituent alignment
Chapter 12 Relative clauses
	12.1 Relative clause structure and formal properties
	12.2 Asymmetries between main and relative clauses
	12.3 Accessibility of constituents to relativization
Chapter 13 Complex sentences
	13.1 Coordination and verb serialization
		13.1.1 Juxtaposition
		13.1.2 Disjunction
	13.2 Support clauses
		13.2.1 Setting particle
		13.2.2 Circumstantial clauses
		13.2.3 Reason clauses
		13.2.4 Conditional
		13.2.5 Temporal clauses
	13.3 Complement Clauses
		Lɛ̄
		Nɔ̀
		Kì
Chapter 14 Questions
	14.1 Polar Questions
	14.2 Content questions
		14.2.1 The interrogative pronoun lá ‘q’
		14.2.2 The interrogative pronoun yɛ̄ŋ ‘who’
		14.2.3 The interrogative pronoun fànɛ᷆ ‘where’
		14.2.4 The interrogative nominal modifier mɛ᷆: ‘how.many’
		14.2.5 The interrogative adverbial pronoun nɛ᷆: ‘how’
Chapter 15 Negation
	15.1 Constituent negation
	15.2 Clausal negation
	15.3 Triple negation constructions
	15.4 Vetitive
Chapter 16 Information structure
	16.1 Thetic expressions
	16.2 Topic
		16.2.1 Left dislocation
		16.2.2 Left detachment
		16.2.3 DP-internal word order change
		16.2.4 Right dislocation
	16.3 Focus
		16.3.1 Non-canonical word order focus
		16.3.2 Cleft constructions
		16.3.3 The scalar focus particle mɔ̄
		16.3.4 The n-copula (ɲù) as a focus marker
		16.3.5 The verb focus particle lɔ̀
	16.4 Givenness
Chapter 17 Interlinearized text
	References
	Summary in English
	Samenvatting in het Nederlands
	Curriculum Vitae