The Afranaph Project: Anaphora in the African Languages

About This Case File: We have both an AQR and a CCQR. Although we post the AQR below, there are queries that go unanswered because most of the analysis subsequently took place on a different document which is too incomplete to be posted. Follow-up work on the AQR bogged down because the integration of reflexive and reciprocal markers in the verb stem involved many morphological complexities, including instances where allomorphs of the anaphoric markers appear to be homophones with non-anaphoric meanings. Attempts are made in the Afranaph Portal to distinguish the markers, but the analysis of the RFM anaphoric marker does not distinguish the various allomorphs. The bibliography is very out of date.

• Afranaph Questionnaire Response [pdf]
• Clausal Complementation Questionnaire Response [pdf]
• Bibliography of work on Basaá [pdf]

Basaá Case File Consultant

Paul Roger Bassong currently holds a Ph.D in Linguistics from the University
of Yaounde I. He is a holder of a B.A in English and French linguistics, a
'Maitrise' (postgraduate degree) and an M.A in Linguistics. His research interests
include information structure and the syntax-semantics interface, comparative
and descriptive linguistics, ellipisis in African languages as well as the
development of syntactic theory.