Another thematisation technique is clefting, where the element “na” (it is … that) reproduces an earlier sentence constituent and introduces a relative clause in an otherwise simple sentence. While the position of relative clauses is fixed, that of adverbial clauses is mobile and as a result, cases of fronting are common. Complex sentence proverbs usually contain adverbial and relative clauses. The SVO and SVC clause patterns are dominant in simple sentences and so are positive structures as opposed to negative ones in the whole corpus. The analysis, which is done following Quirk et al’s model of syntactic study (1972, 1985), reveals that simple sentences occur more frequently than compound and complex sentences, with compound sentences being very limited in number. The data are drawn from a sample of proverbs which seem to have originated from the context of use of the language itself and are therefore not translations from foreign languages and cultures.
This paper examines the structure of Cameroon Pidgin English proverbs. The second section deals with a discussion on the prominent sociolinguistic variables found in the various papers. The first section contains the reviews/synopses of the various papers or works that have been used for the study. The paper has been structured into two main parts.
CAMEROONIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH PEOPLE ALSO SEARCH FOR CODE
This paper, therefore, investigates the sociolinguistics of the multiplicity of West African Pidgins of Cameroon, Nigeria and Ghana against some sociolinguistic variables of gender, attitudes, code switching, borrowing, slang, and domains of language use. However, nowadays, it has gained status in some communities to the extent that it has become the mother-tongue of such communities. Historically, Pidgin began as a language marked by traditional interference used chiefly by the prosperous and privileged sections of a community, represented by the unskilled and illiterate class of the society (Quirk et al., 1985).
One notable phenomenon in the field of language contact is Pidgin English.
Language contact is a key issue in the field of sociolinguistics.
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