Acknowledgments

First and foremost, we would like to express our gratitude to all the anonymous participants who shared their stories with us, and whose contributions helped to bring this grammar to life. We also owe a debt of gratitude to Roland Minang, the data collector and transcriber on our project A spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English: pilot study (Green, Ayafor and Ozón 2016). Roland worked tirelessly to produce the dataset this grammar is based on. We would also like to express our sincere thanks to our research assistant on the corpus project, Sarah FitzGerald, and our co-investigator, Gabriel Ozón, whose knowledge, skills and insights helped us to learn more about the language. Special thanks are also due to Lynne Cahill, Tom Devlin and Nancy Kula for their comments and suggestions on the phonetics and phonology chapter, and to the following Sussex students, whose dissertation projects on CPE also taught us more about the language: Kim Ash, Rose Bridle, Cat Carter, Belle Dowber-Hawkins, Alex Dunlop, Sadie Elford, Sarah FitzGerald, Jacob Greenwood, Daniel Manning, Emma Thomas and Lucy Vernon. We acknowledge the financial support of the School of English at the University of Sussex, which funded our pre-pilot corpus, as well as a British Academy/Leverhulme grant (ref. SG140663), which funded our pilot corpus. Last but not least, we are indebted to our editor Lutz Marten and our referees Eric Anchimbe and Nick Faraclas, whose generous and insightful comments on earlier drafts helped us to significantly improve the book. We remain responsible for any errors or omissions.