DYNAMISME D’UN PARLER URBAIN CAMEROUNAIS: VERS LA NORMALISATION DU CAMFRANGLAIS
DYNAMISM OF A CAMEROONIAN URBAN SPEAK: TOWARDS THE STANDARDIZATION OF CAMFRENGLISH

Summary/Abstract: Camfranglais is the language of young Cameroonians who are trying to adapt it to French. Despite the diversity of forms imposed by the mixture of French, English, pidjin-english and other identity languages, it is noticed that the lexico-morphological system of camfranglais function within the base on the French language rules. The morphological transformations occurred on words portray the variations of grammatical categories imposed by the discursive situations. It has been found that speakers resort to derivation, more precisely to suffixation in creating words which enrich the lexicon. Thus, the creation of new words and their usages have been noticed in language use on the part of speakers who were under focus in different campuses and university rooms such as Maroua, Ngaoundéréand Yaoundé in 2015. Direct and interactive observations from sociolinguistics have helped in collecting data that were analyzed. The analyses were done following a normative approach with the intention of showing how Camfranglais establishes its norms. The morpho-syntactic rules which buttress the dynamism of this sociolect are observed at the lexical level of the verbal and syntactic systems.

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