{"id":743,"date":"2024-01-16T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T17:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/kpaamcam\/?p=743"},"modified":"2024-09-24T13:30:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T13:30:59","slug":"ousmanou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/kpaamcam\/2024\/01\/16\/ousmanou\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousmanou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/kpaamcam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/86\/2024\/09\/Ousmanou-2014-Koshin.pdf\">How to Disclose the Environment through Linguistic Description: A Basic Linguistic Analysis of Koshin [\u201cBeboid\u201d Bantu, Cameroon]<\/a>. PhD dissertation, University of Yaounde I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EN: This work seeks to demonstrate how the environment of a language can be disclosed through a linguistic description of that language. It presents a description of the Koshin language, a \u201cBeboid\u201d Bantu language spoken in Northwest Cameroon. Data for this work was collected through texts, participant observation, and controlled lexical elicitation. The data was analyzed inductively with several theories, including Basic Linguistic Theory, Structural Phonology, Phonology in Generative theory, Prosodic theory of \u201cNonconcatenative\u201d morphology, and Sentence Phonology. The researcher found that the Koshin lexicon and basic grammatical categories mirrored the environment of the community. Additionally, the sound symbolism in some parts of the language served to disclose the environment. Finally, some morpho-phonological processes also displayed with the world vision of the community. In conclusion, the research suggests that language description can play a key role in understanding a community in the same way that Sociology and Anthropology can be used.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FR: Ce travail tente de d\u00e9montrer comment l\u2019environnement d\u2019une langue peut \u00eatre r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 \u00e0 travers la description linguistique de cette langue. Il montre une description de la langue Koshin, une langue \u201cBeboide\u201d (aujourd\u2019hui Yemne-Kimbi) parl\u00e9e au Nord-ouest du Cameroun. Les donn\u00e9es pour ce travail ont \u00e9t\u00e9 collect\u00e9es \u00e0 travers des textes, l\u2019observation participante, et un glossaire contr\u00f4l\u00e9. Les donn\u00e9es ont \u00e9t\u00e9 analys\u00e9es inductivement avec des th\u00e9ories diff\u00e9rentes, dont la th\u00e9orie linguistique basique, la phonologie structurale, la phonologie g\u00e9n\u00e9rative, la phonologie lexicale, la th\u00e9orie prosodique de la morphologie non &lt;&lt; concat\u00e9native &gt;&gt;, et la phonologie de la phrase. Le chercheur a trouv\u00e9 que le lexique de Koshin et les cat\u00e9gories grammaticales basiques refl\u00e8tent l\u2019environnement de la communaut\u00e9. Aussi, la valeur symbolique du son l\u00e8ve aussi un pan de voile non n\u00e9gligeable sur l\u2019environnement de la communaut\u00e9 des locuteurs du Koshin. Finalement, quelques processus morpho-phonologiques de la langue constituent une autre grille de lecture pour la d\u00e9couverte de la vision du monde de peuple koshin. En conclusion, la recherche sugg\u00e8re que la description d\u2019une langue devient une v\u00e9ritable clef pour la compr\u00e9hension d\u2019une communaut\u00e9, pas moins que les sciences telles que la sociologie et l\u2019anthropologie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Disclose the Environment through Linguistic Description: A Basic Linguistic Analysis of Koshin [\u201cBeboid\u201d Bantu, Cameroon]. 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