Aloysius Ngefac
List of John Benjamins publications for which Aloysius Ngefac plays a role.
Articles
2014 The evolutionary trajectory of Cameroonian Creole and its varying sociolinguistic statuses The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber and Alexander Kautzsch (eds.), pp. 434–447 | Article
The different names the contact language spoken in Cameroon has had at different historical points significantly reveal the complex evolutionary itinerary of the language and its varying sociolinguistic statuses. After the Portuguese era (ca. 1469 – 1600), which had Pidgin Portuguese as the main… read more
2006 Cameroon Pidgin and Cameroon English at a confluence: A real-time investigation English World-Wide 27:2, pp. 217–227 | Article
The paper argues that Cameroon Pidgin, a simplified language that displayed a unique peculiarity in the yesteryears, is now giving up most of its phonological peculiarities and embracing those of the variety of English spoken in Cameroon. An analysis of the speech of 150 educated Cameroon Pidgin… read more