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Allison, Sean David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Makary Kotoko (MK), a Central Chadic B language, is spoken in the north of Cameroon just south of Lake Chad. Published works on MK to date include about a dozen articles on different aspects of the grammar of the language, primarily by H. Tourneux. The present work, which is based on a substantial corpus of recorded texts, is a systematic…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Research, African Languages, Morphology (Languages)
Aroga Bessong, Dieudonne P. – Metas, 1982
Translation into Bafia of the French present tense in its different values requires the translator to make some decisions based on semantic values and implied time factors. Specific considerations and problems are discussed with examples given. (MSE)
Descriptors: African Languages, Form Classes (Languages), French, Grammar
Laberge, Julie, Ed.; Vezina, Robert, Ed. – 1996
The 33 papers, all in French, from the 1996 conference on research in linguistics address a wide range of topics in linguistics, including: linguists as an endangered species; categorizing verb specifiers in Yoruba; socio-terminology as a framework for understanding the language of orthodontia; French-to-Arabic borrowings in the 19th and 20th…
Descriptors: Advertising, African Languages, Arabic, Bilingualism