Output

Software

Project software can be found at: http://github.com/jcgood/kpaamcam.

Theses

2024

    • Nyang, Nelson Tatah.
      Sociopragmatics Study of Place Names: The Case of Mashi in the North West Region of Cameroon
    • Suh, Mirabel Sirri.
      The Perceived Impact of Conflict-Induced Displacement on Multilingualism in Cameroon: The Case of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Lower Fungom Residing in Bassa and Souza

    2023

    • Aloula, Lionel Ferand.
      Funeral rites within the diaspora: Bamiléké de Bazou in Yaounde. MA Thesis, University of Dschang
    • Maffo, Foyet Nidelle.
      Exploration du Nsiteu, un Parler dans l’Arrondissement de Bazou au Cameroun.

2022

    • Nsakse, Ruddygilian Jingkoh.
      Lexical Variation in Fang and its Suggestions for Didactic Materials: The Case of Fang Speakers in Souza. MA Thesis, University of Buea.
    • Nsem Tem, Angela.
      Assessing individual multilingual competences: the case of Lower Fungom (North-West Region of Cameroon). PhD Dissertation, University of Yaounde 1.

    2021

    • Douanla Taffre, Angèle Vanessa.
      Etude comparative du point de vue lexicostatistique et morphologique des dialected du nda’nda’. MA thesis, University of Yaounde 1.
    • Esene Agwara, Angiachi D
      Language ideologies in contexts of small-scale multilingualism: Repertoires, attitudes, and language use in Lower Fungom (Cameroon). PhD Dissertation, University of Bayreuth.
    • Kengne Nsidjine Edwige Noel.
      Contingences socio-culturelles et dynamiques spatiales dans la Commune de Bazou (Ouest-Cameroon). MA thesis, University of Yaounde 1.
    • Kum Kebei, Marius.
      Household multilingualism and intercommunity relations: an ethnographic appraisal of the Lower Fungom area in Menchum Division of the North-West Region of Cameroon. PhD dissertation (Sociology and Anthropology). University of Buea.
    • Tschonghongei, Nelson C.
      Mbuk Documentary Grammar. PhD Dissertation, University of Yaounde 1.

    2020

    • Chenemo, Margaret.
      Multilingualism and language ideology: an ethnographically-informed sociolinguistic perspective in the study of linguistic diversity in Lower Bafut, North-West Cameroon. PhD disseration. University of Yaounde I.
    • Deng, Ning.
      Advanced schema mappings: Priorities and coverage. PhD dissertation, University at Buffalo.

    2019

    • Ojong Diba, Rachel A.
      The sociolinguistic dynamics of rural multilingualism in Africa. The case of Lower Fungom. PhD dissertation, University of Buea.

    2015

    • Budji K. Ivoline.
      Spotlight on a Threatened Language: The Fio Language of the Bamenda Grassfields of North western Cameroon. Master’s thesis, Catholic University of Cameroon – Bamenda.

    2014 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)

    • Ousmanou
      How to Disclose the Environment through Linguistic Description: A Basic Linguistic Analysis of Koshin . PhD dissertation, University of Yaounde I.

    2013 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)

Books, book chapters, and articles

To appear

  • Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. Language maps and sociolinguistic data: Developing linguistic cartography of Bantoid languages. Afrika und Übersee.
  • Good, Jeff. Language Change in small-scale multilingual societies: Trees, waves, an magnets?. In Life Cycle of Language: Past, Present, and Future. Darya Kavistkaya and Alan Yu (eds.)
  • Good, Jeff, Nelson C. Tschonghongei, Pierpaolo Di Carlo, and Clayton Hamre. Bantoid lexical diversity from an individual-based perspective. In Bantoid and Bantu in Cameroon: A historical re-assessment. Rebecca Grollemund, Derek Nurse, and John Watters (eds.)
  • Menguie Yollande, Seino Evangeline Agwa Fomukong, Esther Phubon Chie. Migration and Multilingualism: The Case of Lower Fungom (LF) Migrants in Souza. African Journal of Social Sciences.
  • Sun, Jiazhen, Yujia Pan, Ling Bian, Pierpaolo Di Carlo, and Jeff Good. “What is Your Primary language?: Spatial Considerations of Primary Language Identification in a Multilingual Rural Region”. Being revised for resubmission to Professional Geographer.
  • Tschonghongei, Nelson Ts. Numeral Mutation Typology in Lower Fungom Languages. Afrika und Übersee.
  • Tschonghonghei, Nelson Ts. Typology of Enumeratic Prefix Limits. Afrika und Übersee.

2023

2022

2021

2020

Selected Chapters:

  • Chenemo, Margaret and Ayu’nwi N. Neba. Essentialism and Indexicality in a Multilingual Rural Community: The Case of Lower Bafut in North-West Cameroon.
  • Di Carlo, Pierpaolo and Ayu’nwi N. Neba. The So-Called Royal Register of Bafut within the Bafut Language Ecology: Language Ideologies and Multilingualism in the Cameroonian Grassfields.
  • Esene Agwara, Angiachi D. What an Ethnographically Informed Questionnaire Can Contribute to the Understanding of Traditional Multilingualism Research: Lessons from Lower Fungom.
  • Mba, Gabriel and Angela Nsem Tem. Ways to Assess Multilingual Competence in Small, Unwritten Languages: The Case of Lower Fungom.
  • Ojong Diba, Rachel A. Nuances in Language Use in Multilingual Settings: Code-Switching or Code Regimentation in Lower Fungom?’

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)

2013 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)

2012 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)

2011 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)

2010 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)

Presentations (incomplete list)

2023

  • Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Ndokobai Dadak, Amina Goron, Made Boukar, and Veved David. “An emerging sign language in the Minawao UNHCR camp (Cameroon). Language ecology and multimodal communication in an African refugee camp”. 9th European Conference on African Studies, Cologne, 3 June 2023. Video recording available here (in French). 
  • Yujia Pan, Ling Bian, Jeff Good, and Pierpaolo Di Carlo. “Language use between absolute space and relational space”. 2023 Annual Meeting of the America Association of Geographers. Denver.

2022

  • Rachel A. Ojong Diba. “The sociocultural constraints on code switching in Lower Fungom and the implications on theories of convergence and divergence”.
  • 4th Symposium on West African Languages, University of Napoli “L’Orientale”, 21-23 September 2022. Abstract.
  • Pierpaolo Di Carlo and Jeff Good. “Language contact or semiotic pools? A speaker-centered view of language differentiation in the Cameroonian Grassfields”. 4th Symposium on West African Languages, University of Napoli “L’Orientale”, 21-23 September 2022. Abstract.
  • Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Jeff Good, and Nelson Tschonghongei. “Social separation and language change in the Cameroonian Grassfields”. 55th Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (University of Bucharest, August 23-27 2022. Abstract.
  • Pierpaolo Di Carlo & Jeff Good. “Using patterns of semantic convergence as evidence for sociolinguistic reconstruction”. Historical Sociolinguistics Network Meeting, University of Murcia (Spain), June 2-3 2022 (and online). Abstract.
  • Pierpaolo Di Carlo. “Towards a spatial representation of societal and individual multilingualism: Reasons and models for innovating the linguistic cartography of Bantoid languages”. First Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics (Banto1d). Hamburg, Germany.
  • Nelson C. Tschonghongei. “Typological limits of enumerative prefixes in the Beboid language family” and “Numeral mutation typology in Lower Fungom languages”, both presented at the First Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics (Banto1d), University of Hamburg, March 24-25.
  • Jeff Good. “Bantoid lexical diversity from an individual-based perspective”. Presented at the First Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics (Banto1d), University of Hamburg, March 24-25.
  • Pierpaolo Di Carlo. “Towards a spatial representation of societal and individual multilingualism“. Presented at the First Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics (Banto1d), University of Hamburg, March 24-25.

2021

  • Angiachi Esene Agwara and Pierpaolo Di Carlo. “Language use, individualistic gain, and social distancing in the market. Multilingual behaviors during market transactions in Lower Fungom (Cameroon)”. Small-scale Multilingualism Conference 2. Helsinki.
  • Jeff Good, Clayton Hamre, and Pierpaolo Di Carlo. “Lexical and spatial networks in a rural multilingual setting”. Small-scale Multilingualism Conference 2. Helsinki.
  • Nelson T. Tschonghongei, Pierpaolo Di Carlo, and Jeff Good. “Sociolinguistic Influence in Speech Heterogeneity”. Small-scale Multilingualism Conference 2. Helsinki.
  • Pierpaolo Di Carlo. “Negotiating identities in contexts of small-scale multilingualism: focus on relational identity”. Sociolinguistic Symposium 23, University of Hong Kong (online). Video recorded presentation.
  • Pierpaolo Di Carlo. “Small-scale multilingualism in Africa, Amazonia, and the Atlantic space”. ILARA Roundtable. Institut des Langues Rares (ILARA).
  • Rachel A. Ojong Diba, Pierpaolo Di Carlo, and Jeff Good. “How fragile is small-scale multilingualism? A multidimensional assessment of the endangerment of small-scale multilingualism in Cameroon”. Small-scale Multilingualism Conference 2. Helsinki.
  • Yujia Pan, Ling Bian, Jeff Good, and Pierpaolo Di Carlo. “Can localized mobility influence language acquisition?”. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Virtual.

2020

  • Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. “From qualitative to quantitative in the sociolinguistics of multilingualism”. GramAdapt seminar, hosted by the Department of Languages, University of Helsinki. Helsinko.
  • Esene Agwara and Angiachi Demetris. “How endangered language programs can broaden participation in science”. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. New Orleans.

2019

  • Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. “How to document multilingualism? Towards a coherent methodology”. Methods in the documentation of multilingualism. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting satellite workshop on Multilingualism, Contact, and Documenting Endangered Languages. New York, New York.
  • Di Carlo, Pierpaolo and Good, Jeff. “Indexical order, identity targets, and the typology of multilingualism”. Typology of Small-Scale Multilingualism Conference. Lyon.
  • Good, Jeff. “Methods in the documentation of multilingualism”. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting satellite workshop on Multilingualism, Contact, and Documenting Endangered Languages. New York, New York.
  • Jeff Good, Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Penghang Liu, Yujia Pan, Ling Bian, and Clayton Hamre. “Individual-based socio-spatial networks as a tool for areal typology”. 13th Conference of the Association for Linguisitc Typology. University of Pavia.
  • Ling Bian, Penghang Liu, Pierpaolo Di Carlo, Jeff Good, and Yujia Pan. “Spatial Distribution of Language Use between and within Generations of Multilinguals in a Rural African Region”. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.

2018

  • Good, Jeff. “Mapping Multilingual repertoires: A case study of a rural African region”. Twenty-Second Foundation for Endangered Languages Conference. Reykjavik.
  • Good, Jeff. “Multilingualisms, political configurations, and rural spaces in Cameroon”. Language Endangerment and Political Instability Conference, University of North Texas.

2017

  • Di Carlo, Pierpaolo, Angiachi A. Esene Agwara, and Rachel A. Ojong. “English to rebuke, Pidgin to be understood, and local languages to feel secure. Old and new language ideologies in rural Cameroon”. European Conference on African Studies 7, University of Basel, 29 June 2017.
  • Good, Jeff. “Documenting Multilingualism in rural Africa: the case of Lower Fungom“. UT Austin colloquium, 2 October 2017.

2016

  • Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. “Documenting contexts of multilingualism in rural Africa”. Presented at the workshop “Small-scale multilingualism and linguistic theory” part of the international conference “Language documentation and linguistic theory 5”, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2 – 4 December 2016.
  • Di Carlo, Pierpaolo and Ayu’nwi N. Neba. “Social structure, group-formation, and multilingualism. Preliminary notes from Bafut”. Presented at the international workshop “Crossroads & KPAAM-CAM. Two projects, one focus: African multilingualism”. School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 6-10 June 2016.

2015

  • Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. “Toward an understanding of African traditional multilingualism: ethnography, language ideologies, and the supernatural”. Globalising Sociolinguistics, University of Leiden, 19 June 2015.

Posters

2023

  • Pan, Yujia, Ling Bian, Jeff Good, and Pierpaolo Di Carlo, University at Buffalo; Language Use between Absolute Space and Relational Space. Poster presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the America Association of Geographers, Denver, March 23-27.

2017

  • Di Carlo, Pierpaolo, Jeff Good, Ling Bian, Yujia Pan, and Penghang Liu. “Socio-spatial Networks, Multilingualism, and Language Use in a Rural African Context”, presented at the international conference COSIT 2017, University of L’Aquila, 2-6 September 2017.

Drafts