Miriam Ayafor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 223399 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Miriam Ayafor |
| PRENOMES | Miriam |
| SOBRENOME | Ayafor |
| ASSINATURA | AYAFOR M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Department of English University of Yaoundé I PO Box 755 Yaoundé Cameroon |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 4 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English
This article reports on the construction of a 240,000-word pilot corpus of spoken Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE), a widely-used yet stigmatised and largely uncodified written pidgin/creole variety. The corpus consists of private and public dialogues and monologues, with mark-up and POS-tagging. Text categories and the proportions of monologue and dialogue are guided by those of the International Corpus of English project, which makes the corpus im…
Serial verb constructions in Kamtok (Cameroon Pidgin English)
Kamtok, an English-based expanded pidgin/creole in Cameroon, has many of the grammatical structures of its lexifier language. However, there are certain grammatical structures in this contact language which are not so obvious in its lexifier, though they may exist sparingly in spoken forms of the production of some native speakers. One of these is the serial verb construction (SVC). SVCs are ‘a series of two (or more) verbs [that] have the same s…
Non-standard features in English in Anglophone Cameroon New Writing
One of the ways a language is learned, especially a foreign language, is by personal extensive reading. When people read widely, they are exposed to the linguistic structure of what they read and so learn it consciously or unconsciously. What they come across in their reading remains in their minds and adds to their general knowledge. This includes knowledge of the language they read. General wide reading reinforces the language students have bee…
An orthography for Kamtok
A proposal for a standard script for Cameroonian Pidgin English
The spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English
This article reports on the construction of a 240,000-word pilot corpus of spoken Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE), a widely-used yet stigmatised and largely uncodified written pidgin/creole variety. The corpus consists of private and public dialogues and monologues, with mark-up and POS-tagging. Text categories and the proportions of monologue and dialogue are guided by those of the International Corpus of English project, which makes the corpus im…
An orthography for Kamtok
A proposal for a standard script for Cameroonian Pidgin English
Non-standard features in English in Anglophone Cameroon New Writing
One of the ways a language is learned, especially a foreign language, is by personal extensive reading. When people read widely, they are exposed to the linguistic structure of what they read and so learn it consciously or unconsciously. What they come across in their reading remains in their minds and adds to their general knowledge. This includes knowledge of the language they read. General wide reading reinforces the language students have bee…
Serial verb constructions in Kamtok (Cameroon Pidgin English)
Kamtok, an English-based expanded pidgin/creole in Cameroon, has many of the grammatical structures of its lexifier language. However, there are certain grammatical structures in this contact language which are not so obvious in its lexifier, though they may exist sparingly in spoken forms of the production of some native speakers. One of these is the serial verb construction (SVC). SVCs are ‘a series of two (or more) verbs [that] have the same s…
The spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English
This article reports on the construction of a 240,000-word pilot corpus of spoken Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE), a widely-used yet stigmatised and largely uncodified written pidgin/creole variety. The corpus consists of private and public dialogues and monologues, with mark-up and POS-tagging. Text categories and the proportions of monologue and dialogue are guided by those of the International Corpus of English project, which makes the corpus im…
Computer Science (4 obras) · Linguistics (4 obras) · Creole language (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Pidgin (3 obras) · Foreign language (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition (2 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 obras)