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THE MORPHO-SYNTAX OF ADVERBS IN SHUPAMEM
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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, Letters and
Social Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a
Master's Degree in General Linguistics
By
ABASS NGOUNGOUO YIAGNIGNI
Bachelor of Arts in Bilingual Studies
Under the supervision of
DrFlorence TABE
Senior Lecturer
Academic Year 2015-2016 June 2016
DEDICATION
To my late father, Yiagnigni Ismaila
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First of all, I thank my supervisor, Dr Florence Tabe, for her
commitment in supervising this work. She accepted this difficult task without
complaint, and has been the one who guided my first steps into research.
Secondly, I heartily thank the administrative and teaching
staff of the Department of African Languages and Linguistics of the University
of Yaoundé I, especially Professor Edmond Biloa, Professor Cledor Nseme,
and Professor Ndibnu-Messina. They have always paid attention to my work and
many other administrative issues concerning me.
I also thank the administrative staffs of the Summer Institute
of Linguistics, CERDOTOLA, and the Library of the Faculty of Arts, Letters and
Social Sciences of the University of Yaoundé I, who provided me useful
documentation. In the same line, I thank all my informants for their
contributions in data provision and correction. I heartily thank Dr Laziz
Nchare for his support in forms of documentation and his multiple pieces of
advice.
Thirdly, I wish to thank Professor Moundi Amidou and his wife,
Mrs.Moundi Rikiatou, for their financial and moral support. Thesethanks also go
to their children Samira, Awa, Leila and Jabir, who have always created a
lively atmosphere around me. I am also grateful to my family in the village for
the basic education they provided me, especially my mother Mrs.Ngoumnjouen
Fadimatou, my grand-father, Nji Ngoucheme Mama, all my brothers and sisters.
Finally, I thank my friends Zacky, Fadi, Pulchérie,
Lise, Peguy, Michelle, Fopa, Florance, Zounédou, Habilou, Anita, Ariane,
Christelle and Ismaila. I alsothank Gbayouen Balkiss for her attention and
encouragements, and Arsène Kengne for proof-reading this work. I thank
everybody whose name is not mentioned here and who contributed, in one way or
the other, to the realization of this work.
LISTS OF TABLES AND
FIGURES
Tables
Table 1: List of
Informants............................................................5
Table 2: Shupamem consonants
chart...............................................20
Table 3: Shupamem vowels
chart...................................................21
Table 4: Shupamem tone
chart.......................................................22
Table 5: Shupamem noun
classes...................................................24
Table 6: Shupamem personal
pronouns.............................................25
Table 7: Shupamem possessive
pronouns..........................................26
Table 8: Shupamem demonstrative
pronouns......................................27
Figures
Figure 1: Geographical location of Shupamem in
Cameroon..................7
Figure 2: Linguistic map of the West Region of
Cameroon.......................8
Figure 3: Classification chart of
Shupamem........................................10
Figure 4: Shupamem within the Grassfield Bantu
languages.....................11
Figure 5: The Computation of Human Language within
MP....................46
Figure 6: Hierachical scheme of the adverbs in
Shupamem.....................94
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