Ebook: Aspects in Nchufie Grammar

UCLA, 1994. — 170 p.In the fall quarter of 1991 and the winter quarter of 1992, Dorit Ben-Shalom, Dani Byrd, Jongho Jun, Karn King, Luc Moritz, Murat Kural, Michael Nkemnji, Akira Nakamura, Seungho Nam, Tetsuya Sano, Dan Silverman, and Kelly Stack participated in a field methods class in which we studied Nchufie under my direction. This volume brings together nine papers written in the context of our class.1 Nchufie,2 also referred to as Bafanji, is a Grassfield Bantu language of the Nun group in the Mbam-Nkam family, spoken in North Western Cameroon. There is no previously published material on Nchufie. We worked with a native speaker, Sophie Ajeakwa, who grew up in the village of Bafanji. My introduction consists of two parts. In the first part, I provide some background information on Ncufie, which helps place the individual papers in context. In the second part, I discuss some phenomena which are not dealt with in any of the individual papers included in this volume.