Pius W. Akumbu
Publications
Publications
Sound-symbolism in Central Ring Grassfields BantuWord-Formation Theories VII & Typology and Universals in Word-Formation VI, workshop “Methods of research into sound-symbolism”, Jun 2025, Kosice, Slovakia |
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The language of Nàkàŋ: A Babanki variety for entertainmentFifth Cultural Linguistics International Conference 2025 (CLIC 25), Jun 2025, Madrid, Spain |
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Low tone anticipatory spreading in Babanki: A typological anomaly58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE58), Aug 2025, Bordeaux, France |
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Low tone anticipatory spreading in Babanki: A typological anomaly34th West African Linguistic Congress, Oct 2025, Dakar, Senegal |
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Decolonization and linguistics – opportunities and challenges57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE57), Aug 2024, Helsinki, Finland |
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Bubbling belly' and 'bursting bile' - The linguistic expression of anger in Babanki (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon)24th Afrikanist*innentag, Jul 2021, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany |
Interaction of noun prefix and concord markers in Bantoid languagesBantoid gender workshop, Jan 2024, Berlin, Germany |
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Reconstructing a Grassfields Bantu nominal prefix low tone: Evidence from associative constructionsSecond Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics, Jun 2024, Yaounde, Cameroon |
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Plant partonomy and individuation strategies in Babanki11th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 11), Aug 2024, Nairobi, Kenya |
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Variation in the realization of /t/ in Babanki Tungoh21st International Congress of Linguists 2024, Sep 2024, Poznan, Poland |
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Gizey OnomatopoeiaSocietas Linguistica Europaea Workshop: Sound Symbolism and Onomatopoeia, Lívia Körtvélyessy, Maria Flaksman, and Pius W. Akumbu, Aug 2023, Athens, Greece |
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Morpho-phonological adaptation and the development of secret languages: The case of Chamtok in Mutengene, South-West CameroonWest African Linguistic Congress, Oct 2023, Accra, Ghana |
Conative animal calls in Babanki and Bum (Grassfields languages of Cameroon)Seminar Series: La communication au-delà de l'humain, STL, Universite de Lille, Jun 2023, Lille, France |
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Babanki logophoricity in a Ring perspectiveInternational Workshop "Reported Discourse within Grammar: Cross-linguistic insights", Jul 2023, Villejuif, France |
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Demonstratives and definiteness in BabankiWorkshop on Definiteness in the Niger-Congo Noun Phrase, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, May 2023, Berkeley, CA, United States |
Grammaticalization of Babanki quotative markersCross-disciplinary perspectives on quoting and speech reporting, Oct 2022, Brussels, Belgium |
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Remnants of nasal prefixes in Western Grassfields BantuFirst Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics, Mar 2022, Hamburg, Germany |
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The (low) phylogenetic relatedness of Conative Animal Calls: The case of Mokpe and Oroko (Bantu Zone A)Afrika und Übersee, 2025, 98, pp.166-203. ⟨10.15460/auue.2025.98.1.347⟩ |
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THE LIMINAL SYSTEM OF BABANKIJournal of West African Languages, 2025, 52 (1), pp.14-32 |
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Integrating traditional stories in formal education in the Cameroonian GrassfieldsJournal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, 2025, 23 (3), pp.205-228. ⟨10.4314/jcas.v21i3.4⟩ |
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Gizey onomatopoeiasSKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2025, Studies in Lexical Iconicity, 22 (2), pp.48-60 |
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Decolonization and Linguistics: A Conversation on Opportunities and ChallengesJournal of Postcolonial Linguistics, 2024, 10, pp.26-40 |
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Towards a linguistic analysis of conative animal calls in Babanki and Bum (Grassfields languages of Cameroon)Kervan. Rivista internazionale di studii afroasiatici = International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2024, 28, pp.3-28 |
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The Babanki pronoun systemJournal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2024, 45 (2), pp.155-184. ⟨10.1515/jall-2024-2006⟩ |
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Conative animal calls in Babanki and Bum (Grassfields languages of Cameroon)Kervan. Rivista internazionale di studii afroasiatici = International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, In press |
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Variation in Central Ring: Convergence or divergence?Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2023, 3 (1), pp.19-42. ⟨10.6092/issn.2785-0943/16312⟩ |
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Remnants of nasal prefixes in Western Grassfields BantuAfricana Linguistica, 2022, 28, pp.3-23. ⟨10.2143/AL.28.0.3291206⟩ |
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The lexical semantics of verbs in the Babanki food domainJournal of West African Languages, 2022, 49 (2), pp.34-55 |
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Studies in Lexical IconicitySKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 22 (2), 2025 |
Language contact and non-convergent change: cases from AfricaLinguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 3 (1), 2023, ⟨10.6092/issn.2785-0943/v3-n1-2023⟩ |
Afrika und Übersee 97: Proceedings of the First Conference on Bantoid Languages and LinguisticsHamburg University Press. 2024 |
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Bum Living DictionaryLiving Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. https://livingdictionaries.app/bum. 2023 |
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Babanki (Kejom) living dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages2022 |
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A community approach to language documentation in AfricaACAL in SoCAL: Selected papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, pp.1-25, 2024 |
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V2 and extensions in Ring languagesRebecca Grollemund, Derek Nurse, John Watters. Bantoid and Bantu in Cameroon: An historical re-assessment, 19, Gruyter Mouton, In press, Studies in Language Change |
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Babanki logophoricity in a Ring perspectiveRose-Juliet Anyanwu. Logophoricity in African languages, In press |