Output

Software

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

Theses

2022

• Nsen Tem, Angela. Assessing individual multilingual competences: the case of Lower Fungom (North-West Region of Cameroon). PhD Dissertation, University of Yaounde 1.

2021

• Tschonghongei, Nelson C. Mbuk Documentary Grammar. PhD Dissertation, 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.
• 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.
• Kengne Nsidjine Edwige Noel. Contingences socio-culturelles et dynamiques spatiales dans la Commune de Bazou (Ouest-Cameroon). MA thesis, University of Yaounde 1.
• Douanla Taffre, Angèle Vanessa. Etude comparative du point de vue lexicostatistique et morphologique des dialected du nda’nda’. MA thesis, 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.
• Tschonghongei, Nelson C. Mbuk documentary grammar. PhD dissertation, University of Yaounde I (this is an advanced draft, to be defended in 2021

2019

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

2016

Books, book chapters, and articles

To appear

• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. Reappraising questionnaires in the study of multilingualism. Lessons from contexts of small-scale multilingualism. In Lenore Grenoble and Jack Martin (eds.) “Documenting multilingualism”, a special volume of the Journal of Language Contact.
• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. Language maps and sociolinguistic data: Developing linguistic cartography of Bantoid languages. Afrika und Übersee.
• Good, Jeff. Adapting methods of language documentation to multilingual settings. In Lenore Grenoble and Jack Martin (eds.) “Documenting multilingualism”, a special volume of the Journal of Language Contact.
• 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. Language documentation in multilingual settings. Journal of Language Contact.
• 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.

2022

• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. The Geographic Sides of Small-Scale Multilingualism: New Challenges in Linguistic Cartography. In New Directions in Linguistic Geography: Exploring Articulations of Space. Greg Niedt (ed.)
• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo and Lukschy, Leonore and Rey, Sydney and Vita, Vasiliki. Documentary linguists and risk communication: views from the virALLanguages project experience. Linguistics Vanguard.
• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo and McDonnell, Bradley and Vahapoglu, Lisa and Good, Jeff and Seyfeddinipur, Mandana and Kordas, Katarzyna. Building climate-sensitive nutrition programmes. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 100 (1) 78 to 80.

2021

• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo, Rachel A. Ojong Diba, and Jeff Good. Towards a coherent methodology for the documentation of small-scale multilingualism: Dealing with speech data. International Journal of Bilingualism, 25, 4: 860-77. (Preprint)
• Nicholas Williams, W. D.. COVID-19 and documentary linguistics: Some ways forward. Language documentation and description. 20 359-377.

2020

• Kum Kebei, Marius, Robert Akoko & Ayu’nwi N. Neba. Multilingualism and intercommunity relationship: An ethnographic appraisal of Lower Fungom communities in the North West Region of Cameroon. African Journal of Social Sciences, 11(7): 107–120.
• Kum Kebei, Marius. (2020). Multilingualism and intercommunity relationship: An ethnographic appraisal of Lower Fungom communities in the North West Region of Cameroon. African journal of social sciences. 11 (7) 107-120.
• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo, Angiachi D. Esene Agwara, and Rachel A. Ojong Diba. Multilingualism and the heteroglossia of ideologies in Lower Fungom (Cameroon). Sociolinguistic Studies, 14, 3: 321–45.
• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. (2020). Message- vs. community-centered models in risk communication. Language on the Move.
• Good, Jeff. 2020. Interdisciplinarity in areal documentation: Experiences from Lower Fungom, Cameroon. In Susan Penfield (Ed.) Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research in Language Documentation.
• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo and Jeff Good (eds). African Multilingualisms: Rural Linguistics and Cultural Diversity. Maryland: Lexington Books.

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

• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo, Jeff Good, and Rachel Ojong Diba. Multilingualism in Rural Africa. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.227.
• Mve, Patrick, Nelson C. Tschonghongei, Pierpaolo Di Carlo and Jeff Good. Cultural distinctiveness and linguistic esoterogeny: The case of the Fang language of Lower Fungom, Cameroon. In Pius Akumbu and Esther P. Chie (eds.), Engagement with Africa. Linguistic essays in honor of Ngessimo M. Mutaka. Köln: Köppe.

2018

• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. Towards an understanding of African endogenous multilingualism: Ethnography, language ideologies, and the supernatural (link to advanced draft). International Journal of Sociology of Language, 254: 139-163.
• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo, Jeff Good, Ling Bian, Yujia Pan and Penghang Liu. Socio-spatial networks, multilingualism, and language use in a rural African context. In Paolo Fogliaroni, Andrea Ballatore, and Eliseo Clementini (eds.), Proceedings of Workshops and Posters at the 13th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2017). Berlin: Springer. 35–39.
• Good, Jeff. East Benue-Congo noun classes, with a focus on their morphological behavior. In John Watters (ed.), Proto–East-Benue-Congo. Monographs on Comparative Niger-Congo. Berlin: Language Sciences Press. 27–57.
• Good, Jeff. Ethics in language documentation and revitalization. In Kenneth Rehg and Lyle Campbell (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Endangered Languages. Oxford: OUP. 419–440.
• Good, Jeff. (2018). Reflections on the scope of language documentation. Language documentation and conservation. Special publication.

2017

• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo and Jeff Good. The vitality and diversity of multilingual repertoires: comments on Mufwene, «Language», 93 (4): e255-e263.
• Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. “Etnicità e multilinguismo: verso una comprensione dei processi identitari nel Camerun precoloniale”. «Nazioni e Regioni» 9: 89 – 101 (in Italian).
• Good, Jeff and Jesse Lovegren. Remarks on the nasal classes in Mungbam and Naki. In Raija Kramer and Roland Kießling (eds.), Mechthildian approaches to Afrikanistik: Advances in language based research on Africa–Festschrift für Mechthild Reh. Köln: Köppe. 83–99.

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”. 9^th 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.