Fula spoken in the City of Maroua (Nothern Cameroon) : a sociolinguistic insight into its use by non-ethnic speakers / Jean-Pierre Boutché.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boutché, Jean Pierre, author.

Series:

Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung ; Bd. 85.

Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung, 0938-7285 ; Band 85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fula language--Cameroon--Maroua.

Fula language.

Fula language--Spoken Fula.

Fula language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.

Sociolinguistics--Cameroon--Maroua--History.

Sociolinguistics.

Fula language--Variation.

History.

Cameroon--Maroua.

Genre:

History.

Textbooks -- for English speakers.

Textbooks -- for foreign speakers.

Textbooks.

Physical Description:

xvi, 287 numbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Summary:

"This book investigates the speech of non-ethnic Fulfulde speakers in Maroua, Northern Cameroon, focussed on the Christian community, where the language is adopted as evangelistic instrument beside French. Three key reasons motivate our investigation. First: Context -- Fulfulde is embedded in a multilingual contact situation with Indo-European languages ​​(French, English) and many other local languages ​​belonging to Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo phyla. Second: Fulfulde as lingua franca in the region. This status is unique compared to the situation in other countries such as Senegal, Chad or Sudan where it is mainly an intra-ethnic medium of communication. Third: In contrast to the common perception of Fulfulde as the language of a Muslim community -- here we are targeting the Christian Fulfulde speakers who share the language as well as the Bible (translated into Fulfulde) as common goods for interethnic communication in their religious activities." -- Back cover.

Contents:

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Figures

Tables

Symbols and Abbreviations

Introduction

The language and its speakers in Northern Cameroon

What this research is all about

State of the art

Linguistic variation in Adamawa Fula

On the structure of African-based lingua francas

Research location

The 7th Day Adventist church at a glance : Belief and organisation

The Bible class

Structure of the work

Historical and Sociolinguistic Background

Multilingual Cameroon

Emergence of a multi-ethnic nation

Ethnic groups and languages

Language development and policy

Northern Cameroon in a nutshell

People and languages

The migration of Fulani to Northern Cameroon

The city of Maroua

The spread of Fula as lingua franca in Northern Cameroon

The Jihad

Socio-demographic and linguistic mobility

Fula as medium of evangelization

Fula as semi-official languagecover. Fula as language of trade and work

Summary and conclusion

Data and Methods

Primary data : the linguistic corpus

Methods of data collection

Speech data from the Bible school

Speech data from a sermon

Speech data analysis

Secondary data

Elicitation of grammatical linguistic structures

Data from observations of language use (formal and informal contexts)

Data from structured interviews and questionnaire

Conceptual Framework

Language variation

On the heterogeneity of language

Dimensions of linguistic variation

Multilingualism and language contact

Africa as multilingual setting

Language contact

Language contact phenomena

Linguistic outcomes of language contact

Corpus linguistics

Definition and object

Concepts

Corpus linguistic research questions and ideals

Statistics in corpus linguistics

Summary and conclusionl languagecover. Linguistic Features of Conservative Fula

Transcription convention used in this work

Phonological aspects of conservative Adamawa Fula

Vowels

Consonants

Syllable structure

Morphology

Nominal Morphology

Verbal Morphology

Syntactic features of Adamawa Fula

Word order

The structure of the nominal phrase

The relative clause and pronouns

Analysis of the nominal system

The structure of the noun

Class-based vs. generic plural morphemes

Collectivisation

Noun substituents and nominal class agreement

Personal pronouns

Possessive pronouns

Interrogative pronouns

Indefinite pronouns

Noun modification and nominal class agreement

Interrogatives

Adjectives

Participles

Demonstratives

Verbal Morphology and Syntax

Verbal concordance and the initial consonant

In the indicative

In the subjunctive

In the imperative

The subject pronoun inversion and the initial consonant

Inversion conditioned by the subjunctive

Inversion conditioned by emphasis

SPI+ vs. SPI- after interrogative pronouns

SPI+ vs. SPI- after relative pronouns

Participial constructions Participles I

Participles II

Alternatives to participle constructions

Lexicalised participles

Verbal voice structure

Confusion of middle and active

Inflectional vs. periphrastic passive construction

Argument extension

Marked vs. unmarked applicative

Derivational vs. Prepositional argument extension

Derivational vs. prepositional argument extension

Sociolinguistic Considerations

Sociolinguistic background and variation

A dominant Central Chadic background

A linguistic biography dominated by Fula

Factors impacting structural variation

Areal impact : Atlantic meets Chadic

Rareness and restriction impact

Ethnographie appraisal of reading and speaking in the Fula Bible class

Switching between written and spoken Fula in the Bible class

The Bible contest

Linguistic input and variation

Place of birth

Origin

Duration of stay L1 vs. L2 speakers

Place of residence in Maroua : central vs. peripheral

Role

Age

Gender

Conclusion

References

Appendices

Questionnaire

Biographical and ethnic information

Linguistic repertoire and language use

Data on speakersʼ biography

Data on speakersʼ language use

Data on speakersʼ language awareness and attitude.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-287).

ISBN:

9783643909749

3643909748

OCLC:

1194519763