In:Cameroon Pidgin English: A comprehensive grammar
Miriam Ayafor and Melanie Green
[London Oriental and African Language Library 20] 2017
► pp. 47–78
Chapter 4The lexicon
Published online: 30 November 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/loall.20.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/loall.20.c4
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.2Formal processes
- 4.2.1Coining
- 4.2.2Novel morpheme combinations
- 4.2.3Clipping
- 4.2.4Reduplication
- 4.2.5Tonal distinctions
- 4.2.6Category change
- 4.2.7Valency change
- 4.2.8Light verb strategy
- 4.3Semantic processes
- 4.3.1Semantic broadening
- 4.3.2Semantic narrowing
- 4.3.3Semantic shift
- 4.4Substrate/adstrate expressions
- 4.4.1Semantic fields
- 4.4.2Calques
- 4.5Word classes
- 4.5.1Noun
- 4.5.2Verb
- 4.5.3Adjective
- 4.5.4Adverb
- 4.5.5Pronoun
- 4.5.6Determiner
- 4.5.7Numeral
- 4.5.8Plural particle
- 4.5.9Preposition
- 4.5.10Copula
- 4.5.11Preverbal particle (TMA/negation)
- 4.5.12Complementiser and relativiser
- 4.5.13Conjunction
- 4.5.14Ideophone and interjection
- 4.6Lectal variation
