Melanie Green

List of John Benjamins publications in which Melanie Green is involved.

Book series

London Oriental and African Language Library

Edited by Melanie Green and Masayoshi Shibatani

ISSN 1382-3485

Title

Cameroon Pidgin English: A comprehensive grammar

Miriam Ayafor and Melanie Green

Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE) is an English-lexified Atlantic expanded pidgin/creole spoken in some form by an estimated 50% of Cameroon’s population, primarily in the anglophone west regions, but also in urban centres throughout the country. Primarily a spoken language, CPE enjoys a vigorous oral… read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 20] 2017. xxi, 314 pp.

Ozón, Gabriel, Sarah FitzGerald and Melanie Green 2019 Chapter 1.6. Addressing a coverage gap in African Englishes: The tagged corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English Corpus Linguistics and African Englishes, Esimaje, Alexandra U., Ulrike Gut and Bassey E. Antia (eds.), pp. 143–164 | Chapter

This paper illustrates the uses of a tagged corpus of spoken Cameroon Pidgin English (CPE), which has recently been finalised (Ozón et al. 2017) and made available online (Green et al. 2016). The corpus consists of 240,000 words, with mark-up and part-of-speech-tagging. Text categories and… read more

Green, Melanie and Gabriel Ozón 2018 Chapter 12. Information structure in a spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English Information Structure in Lesser-described Languages: Studies in prosody and syntax, Adamou, Evangelia, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove (eds.), pp. 329–356 | Chapter

We explore information structure in a spoken corpus of Cameroon Pidgin English, addressing the broad question of how far the corpus method addresses the needs of research in this area. Focusing on marked pronouns used in focus/topic constructions and the copula/focus marker na, we detail a method… read more

Piazza, Roberta and Melanie Green 2015 Argumentation in discourse and grammar Handbook of Pragmatics: 2015 Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.) | Article

Green, Melanie and Philip J. Jaggar 2003 Ex-situ and in-situ focus in Hausa: Syntax, semantics and discourse Research in Afroasiatic Grammar II: Selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Paris, 2000, Lecarme, Jacqueline (ed.), pp. 187–214 | Article