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
- Tatang, Joyce Yasho. Aspects of Kung Grammar. Masters thesis, University of Buea.
- Gounou Maimouna, Pulchérie. Phonologie syntagmatique du Missong. Masters thesis, University of Yaounde I.
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 [“Beboid” Bantu, Cameroon]. PhD dissertation, University of Yaounde I.
2013 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)
- Esene Agwara, Angiachi Demetris. Rural multilingualism in the North West Region of Cameroon: The case of Lower Fungom. Masters thesis, University of Buea.
- Lovegren, Jesse. Mungbam grammar. Ph.D. dissertation, University at Buffalo.
- Mve, Jean Patrick. Aspects of the phonology of Fáŋ (draft version). Masters thesis, University of Yaounde I.
- Ngako Yonga, Monique Doriane. Ébauche phonologique et morphologique de la langue bu. Masters thesis, University of Yaounde I.
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.
- 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.
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)
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
2016
Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. “Multilingualism, affiliation, and spiritual insecurity. From phenomena to processes in language documentation”. In Mandana Seyfeddinipur (ed.) African language documentation: new data, methods and approaches, «Language Documentation and Conservation special volume 10»: 71–104.
2015
Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. Multilingualism, solidarity, and magic: New perspectives on traditional language ideologies in the Cameroonian Grassfields. Proceedings of the XLVI International Congress of the Societa’ Italiana di Linguistica.
2014 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)
Di Carlo, Pierpaolo and Jeff Good. What Are We Trying To Preserve? Diversity, Change, and Ideology at the Edge of the Cameroonian Grassfields. In Peter K. Austin and Julia Sallabank (eds.), Endangered languages: Beliefs and ideologies in language documentation and revitalization. Oxford: OUP. 229–262.
2013 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)
Good, Jeff. A (micro-)accretion zone in a remnant zone? Lower Fungom in areal–historical perspective. In What’s where why? Language typology and historical contingency: In honor Johanna Nichols. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 265–282.
2012 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)
- Di Carlo, Pierpaolo and Giovanna Pizziolo. Spatial reasoning and GIS in linguistic prehistory: Two case studies from Lower Fungom (Northwest Cameroon). Language Dynamics and Change 2:150–183.
- Good, Jeff. How to become a ‘Kwa’ noun. Morphology 22:294–335.
- Good, Jeff. ‘Community’ collaboration in Africa: Experiences from Northwest Cameroon. In Peter K. Austin and Stuart McGill (eds.), Language Documentation and Description, Volume 11. London: SOAS. 28–58.
- Lovegren, Jesse. Stem initial prominence in Mungbam. In Michael R. Marlo, Nikki B. Adams, Christopher R. Green, Michelle Morrison, and Tristan M. Purvis (ed.), Selected proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. 47–54.
- Lovegren, Jesse. Suppletive (?) tonal alternations in Munken. LSA Annual Meeting extended abstracts 2012.
2011 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)
- Good, Jeff, Jesse Lovegren, Jean Patrick Mve, Carine Nguanguep Tchiemouo, Rebecca Voll, and Pierpaolo Di Carlo. The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview. Africana Linguistica17:101–164.
- Di Carlo, Pierpaolo. Lower Fungom linguistic diversity and its historical development: Proposals from a multidisciplinary perspective. Africana Linguistica 17:53–100.
- Lovegren, Jesse. The linguistic phonetic properties of Mungbam vowels, and their areal-historical and theoretical significance. Qualifying paper, University at Buffalo, Department of Linguistics.
2010 (prior to KPAAM-CAM)
Good, Jeff. Topic and focus fields in Naki. In Ines Fiedler and Anne Schwarz (eds.), The Expression of Information Structure: A documentation of its diversity across Africa. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 35–68.
Presentations (incomplete list)
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.
- 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
- 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.
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
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
- Lovegren, Jesse. Sparse notes on Baazəm. Draft.
- Lovegren, Jesse. [ATR] contrast in a harmony-less language: The case of Mungbam. Draft.
- Good, Jeff. A sketch of the Naki [mff] noun class system. Draft.
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Good, Jeff. A sketch of the Ajumbu [muc] noun class system. Draft.