Pius W. Akumbu

Publications

Communication dans un congrès (17)

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-05317114v1
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-05317095v1
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-05317130v1
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-05317140v1
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-04710297v1
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-04250472v1
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-04710304v1
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-04690336v1
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-04690340v1
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-04710243v1
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-04264280v1
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-04245337v1
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-04132552v1
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-04155529v1
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-04155582v1
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-03709233v1
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-03812891v1

Article dans une revue (11)

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-05242036v1
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-05097795v1
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-05203918v1
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-05203757v1
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-04851877v1
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-04574178v1
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-04820764v1
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-04250226v2
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-04250289v2
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-03893725v1
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-03910391v1

N°spécial de revue/special issue (2)

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-05203924v1
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-04317389v1

Chapitre d'ouvrage (3)

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-04250500v2
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-04250423v1
Babanki logophoricity in a Ring perspective Pius W. Akumbu,Roland Kiessling Rose-Juliet Anyanwu. Logophoricity in African languages, In press Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04250435v1

Ouvrages (3)

Afrika und Übersee 97: Proceedings of the First Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics Pius W. Akumbu,Roland Kiessling Hamburg University Press. 2024 Ouvrages hal-04771068v1
Bum Living Dictionary Ndokobaï Dadak,Robert Hedinger,Pius W. Akumbu Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. https://livingdictionaries.app/bum. 2023 Ouvrages hal-04074822v1
Babanki (Kejom) living dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages Pius W. Akumbu 2022 Ouvrages hal-03769958v1