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--Spoken Fula.
• Fula language--Textbooks for foreign speakers--English.
• Sociolinguistics--Cameroon--Maroua--History.
• Fula language--Variation.
• Fula language.
• Sociolinguistics.
• 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