Pius W. Akumbu

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Sound-symbolism in Central Ring Grassfields Bantu

Pius W. Akumbu
Word-Formation Theories VII & Typology and Universals in Word-Formation VI, workshop “Methods of research into sound-symbolism”, Jun 2025, Kosice, Slovakia
Communication dans un congrès halshs-05317114 v1

Low tone anticipatory spreading in Babanki: A typological anomaly

Pius W. Akumbu , Valentin Vydrin
58th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE58), Aug 2025, Bordeaux, France
Communication dans un congrès halshs-05317130 v1

The language of Nàkàŋ: A Babanki variety for entertainment

Pius W. Akumbu
Fifth Cultural Linguistics International Conference 2025 (CLIC 25), Jun 2025, Madrid, Spain
Communication dans un congrès halshs-05317095 v1

Low tone anticipatory spreading in Babanki: A typological anomaly

Pius W. Akumbu , Valentin Vydrin
34th West African Linguistic Congress, Oct 2025, Dakar, Senegal
Communication dans un congrès halshs-05317140 v1
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Bubbling belly' and 'bursting bile' - The linguistic expression of anger in Babanki (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon)

Pius W. Akumbu , Roland Kiessling
24th Afrikanist*innentag, Jul 2021, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
Communication dans un congrès hal-04250472 v1

Interaction of noun prefix and concord markers in Bantoid languages

Pius W. Akumbu
Bantoid gender workshop, Jan 2024, Berlin, Germany
Communication dans un congrès hal-04710304 v1

Decolonization and linguistics – opportunities and challenges

Pius W. Akumbu
57th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE57), Aug 2024, Helsinki, Finland
Communication dans un congrès hal-04710297 v1

Reconstructing a Grassfields Bantu nominal prefix low tone: Evidence from associative constructions

Pius W. Akumbu
Second Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics, Jun 2024, Yaounde, Cameroon
Communication dans un congrès hal-04690336 v1

Plant partonomy and individuation strategies in Babanki

Pius W. Akumbu
11th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL 11), Aug 2024, Nairobi, Kenya
Communication dans un congrès hal-04690340 v1

Variation in the realization of /t/ in Babanki Tungoh

Pius W. Akumbu
21st International Congress of Linguists 2024, Sep 2024, Poznan, Poland
Communication dans un congrès hal-04710243 v1

Conative animal calls in Babanki and Bum (Grassfields languages of Cameroon)

Pius W. Akumbu , Alexander Andrason
Seminar Series: La communication au-delà de l'humain, STL, Universite de Lille, Jun 2023, Lille, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04132552 v1
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Morpho-phonological adaptation and the development of secret languages: The case of Chamtok in Mutengene, South-West Cameroon

Pius W. Akumbu , Esther P. Chie
West African Linguistic Congress, Oct 2023, Accra, Ghana
Communication dans un congrès hal-04264280 v1

Gizey Onomatopoeia

Guillaume Guitang , Pius W. Akumbu
Societas Linguistica Europaea Workshop: Sound Symbolism and Onomatopoeia, Lívia Körtvélyessy, Maria Flaksman, and Pius W. Akumbu, Aug 2023, Athens, Greece
Communication dans un congrès hal-04245337 v1

Babanki logophoricity in a Ring perspective

Pius W. Akumbu , Roland Kiessling
International Workshop "Reported Discourse within Grammar: Cross-linguistic insights", Jul 2023, Villejuif, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04155529 v1
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Demonstratives and definiteness in Babanki

Pius W. Akumbu , Peter Jenks
Workshop on Definiteness in the Niger-Congo Noun Phrase, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, May 2023, Berkeley, CA, United States
Communication dans un congrès hal-04155582 v1

Grammaticalization of Babanki quotative markers

Pius W. Akumbu
Cross-disciplinary perspectives on quoting and speech reporting, Oct 2022, Brussels, Belgium
Communication dans un congrès hal-03812891 v1

Remnants of nasal prefixes in Western Grassfields Bantu

Pius W. Akumbu , Jeffrey Wills
First Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics, Mar 2022, Hamburg, Germany
Communication dans un congrès hal-03709233 v1
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The (low) phylogenetic relatedness of Conative Animal Calls: The case of Mokpe and Oroko (Bantu Zone A)

Pius W. Akumbu , Alexander Andrason , Levi E. Mokake
Afrika und Übersee, 2025, 98, pp.166-203. ⟨10.15460/auue.2025.98.1.347⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-05242036 v1
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Gizey onomatopoeias

Guillaume Guitang , Pius W. Akumbu
SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2025, Studies in Lexical Iconicity, 22 (2), pp.48-60
Article dans une revue hal-05203918 v1
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THE LIMINAL SYSTEM OF BABANKI

Pius W. Akumbu , Florian Lionnet
Journal of West African Languages, 2025, 52 (1), pp.14-32
Article dans une revue hal-05203757 v1
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Integrating traditional stories in formal education in the Cameroonian Grassfields

Pius W. Akumbu , Roland Kießling , Constantine Kouankem , Justine G Nzweundji , Cornelius W Wuchu
Journal of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, 2025, 23 (3), pp.205-228. ⟨10.4314/jcas.v21i3.4⟩
Article dans une revue halshs-05097795 v1
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Decolonization and Linguistics: A Conversation on Opportunities and Challenges

Pius W. Akumbu , Maria Mazzoli , Hanna-Máret Outakoski , Eeva Sippola
Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics, 2024, 10, pp.26-40
Article dans une revue hal-04851877 v1
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Towards a linguistic analysis of conative animal calls in Babanki and Bum (Grassfields languages of Cameroon)

Pius W. Akumbu , Alexander Andrason
Kervan. Rivista internazionale di studii afroasiatici = International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2024, 28, pp.3-28
Article dans une revue hal-04574178 v1
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The Babanki pronoun system

Pius W. Akumbu , Roland Kießling
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 2024, 45 (2), pp.155-184. ⟨10.1515/jall-2024-2006⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04820764 v1
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Conative animal calls in Babanki and Bum (Grassfields languages of Cameroon)

Pius W. Akumbu , Alexander Andrason
Kervan. Rivista internazionale di studii afroasiatici = International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, In press
Article dans une revue hal-04250226 v2
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Variation in Central Ring: Convergence or divergence?

Pius W. Akumbu , Roland Kiessling
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2023, 3 (1), pp.19-42. ⟨10.6092/issn.2785-0943/16312⟩
Article dans une revue hal-04250289 v2
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Remnants of nasal prefixes in Western Grassfields Bantu

Pius W. Akumbu , Jeffrey Wills
Africana Linguistica, 2022, 28, pp.3-23. ⟨10.2143/AL.28.0.3291206⟩
Article dans une revue hal-03893725 v1
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The lexical semantics of verbs in the Babanki food domain

Pius W. Akumbu , Roland Kiessling
Journal of West African Languages, 2022, 49 (2), pp.34-55
Article dans une revue hal-03910391 v1
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Studies in Lexical Iconicity

Pius W. Akumbu , Maria A. Flaksman
SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 22 (2), 2025
N°spécial de revue/special issue hal-05203924 v1

Language contact and non-convergent change: cases from Africa

Pierpaolo Di Carlo , Pius W. Akumbu
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 3 (1), 2023, ⟨10.6092/issn.2785-0943/v3-n1-2023⟩
N°spécial de revue/special issue hal-04317389 v1
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A community approach to language documentation in Africa

Pius W. Akumbu
ACAL in SoCAL: Selected papers from the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, pp.1-25, 2024
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04250500 v2
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V2 and extensions in Ring languages

Pius W. Akumbu , Jeffrey Wills
Rebecca Grollemund, Derek Nurse, John Watters. Bantoid and Bantu in Cameroon: An historical re-assessment, 19, Gruyter Mouton, In press, Studies in Language Change
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04250423 v1
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Babanki logophoricity in a Ring perspective

Pius W. Akumbu , Roland Kiessling
Rose-Juliet Anyanwu. Logophoricity in African languages, In press
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04250435 v1