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RELATIVE CLAUSES IN CAMEROONIAN LANGUAGES GEBUNDEN

This volume is a series of nine (9) contributions to our understanding of relativization
strategies in eleven (11) languages of Cameroon spread into the seven (7) sub-branches of the
Niger-Congo phylum: Ekoid  Mambiloid  Mamfe  Mbam  Narrow Bantu  Wide Grassfields  Yemne-Kimbi.
As a productive strategy in the world's languages  and considering the evidence that the
African language are either under-described  poorly described or not described at all 
investigations into the forms  structures and functions of relative clauses and relativization
start filling the gap of the absence of analytical descriptive works on the topic. The papers
dwelt on the construction of relative clauses  their structure and constraints  their
morphosyntactic properties  how they are used to give prominence to topics or participants that
are thematic in a given discourse  and to mark the boundaries of units of text  and the formal
characteristics of restrictive relative clause constructions. The findings generated so far
constitute an endless tank for many fields of hyphenated linguistics including general
linguistics  cognitive linguist  applied psycholinguistics  psycholinguistics  neurolinguistics
cognitive psychology  linguistics and pragmatics.

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