Research Mate in African Linguistics: Focus on Cameroon. A Fieldworker's Tool for Deciphering the Stories Cameroonian Languages Have to Tell

In the book dedicated to Professor Larry M. Hyman (University of Berkeley/California, USA) articles with a broad range of topics are published. Their authors all share a deep gratitude for the inspirations and knowledge they have gained from the honoured professor, who has been working on Bantu for three decades. With the present work the editors want to encourage research on little known Cameroonian languages and provide a working tool for established scholars as well as advanced students of linguistics. The book consists of four main parts – phonology, syntax, sociolinguistics and a part of general interest including guidelines and questionnaires. Each part is made up of articles on various – predominantely Cameroonian – language groups, i.e. Narrow Bantu, Grassfields Bantu, Bantu Zone A, Ekoid, Mambiloid and Chadic. Reviews: [...] "Research Mate in African Linguistics" is an instructive collection of introductive papers in different fields of African linguistics, with particular focus on Cameroon. Many of its papers are surely suitable for integration into an introductory course in African Linguistics. Due to its broad range perspective and its affinity with L.N. Hyman’s research agenda, it is beyond doubt that the honoured professor will have been sincerely honoured with this nice token of appreciation. Koen Bostoen in Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 26/1, 2005, pp. 93-95.