Bankon (A40)

Eléments de phonologie, morphologie et tonologie

Author: Gratien G. Atindogbé. Series edited by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Bernd Heine.

Series: GA Grammatical Analyses of African Languages Volume 7

1996
22 pp. Roman, 273 pp.
3 maps, 2 diagrams, numerous tables
Text language(s): French
Format: 160 x 240 mm
580 g
Paperback
€ 59.80

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Bankon is spoken by about 12,000 people in the West of Cameroon (SIL: 2001), north of Douala, and was classified by Guthrie as A.40 (Equatorial Bantu). The present detailed description is the result of several years’ linguistic research in Cameroon and is meant to preserve the Bankon language from being displaced by the more frequent Douala.

As linguistic model, the author uses the autosegmental theory, developed by the generative transformational grammar. This approach has the advantage of being at the same time a descriptive and an explicative description of a language. The author analyses the phonology, the nominal and verbal morphology and the tonology of Bankon. The phenomenon of tone shift is discussed in detail.

Under these links you will find publications by the author and grammatical descriptions, dictionaries and text collections of further Cameroonian Bantu and Grassfields Bantu languages:

Accompanying material:

• A Descriptive Grammar of Bafut (ISBN 978-3-89645-551-2)
• A Descriptive Grammar of Bangwà (ISBN 978-3-89645-563-5)
• A Grammatical Description of Metta (Cameroon) in Relation to Focus Parametric Variation (ISBN 978-3-89645-544-4)
• A Pedagogic Grammar of Babanki (ISBN 978-3-89645-558-1)
• Akum, Ala’atening and Mankon: Dialects or Languages? (ISBN 978-3-89645-562-8)
• Analyse contrastive des parlers Yémba du département de la Ménoua de l’Ouest-Cameroun (ISBN 978-3-89645-046-3)
• Dictionnaire ngiemboon–français–anglais (ISBN 978-3-89645-428-7)
• Engagement with Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-768-4)
• Grammaire descriptive du pólrì (ISBN 978-3-89645-567-3)
• Lamnso’-English Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-429-4)
• Mòkpè (Bakweri) – English Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-927620-33-9)
• Mungaka (Bali) Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-927620-30-8)
• Research Mate in African Linguistics – Focus on Cameroon (ISBN 978-3-89645-041-8)
• Structural and Typological Approaches to Obang Grammar (ISBN 978-3-89645-568-0)
• Traditions, Tales and Proverbs of the Bali-Nyonga (ISBN 978-3-927620-32-2)
• Verbal Serialisation in Isu (West Ring) (ISBN 978-3-89645-555-0)

Cross-reference:

• Copy Pronouns (ISBN 978-3-89645-424-9)
• Directionality in Grammar and Discourse (ISBN 978-3-89645-899-5)
• Perception of the Invisible (ISBN 978-3-89645-603-8)
• Proceedings of the 6th WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009 (ISBN 978-3-89645-199-6)

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