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What are we trying to preserve? Diversity, change, and ideology at the edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
Discussions of endangered languages often frame language death as being associated with the
loss of knowledge as embedded in a particular language. At the same time, it is also clear that the
losses associated with ...
‘Community’ collaboration in Africa: Experiences from Northwest Cameroon
(SOAS, 2012)
A prominent feature of the literature on language documentation has been the importance of
designing documentary projects in ways that allow speaker communities to benefit from the work
of an outside researcher. Canonical ...
Topic and focus fields in Naki
(John Benjamins, 2010)
Naki, a mostly undescribed Bantoid language of Northwest Cameroon with SVO as its canonical
word order, makes use of an interesting information-structure encoding construction wherein
a non-object focused element is ...