Language
Fe'efe'e
Anaphoric markers
| Name | Description | Answerset | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BODY POSS | Fe'efe'e | Sections: Marker_shape(3),
Readings(4)
| |
| 2 | HEAD-BODY POSS | Body anaphor | Fe'efe'e | Sections: Marker_shape(6),
Readings(2)
|
| 3 | mbɒ̀wɒ̄lɒ̄ | Reciprocal argument | Fe'efe'e | Sections: Marker_shape(3),
Readings(2)
|
| 4 | Pronoun | Fe'efe'e | Sections: Marker_shape(3),
Readings(1)
| |
| 5 | RCM | Verb affix reciprocal | Fe'efe'e | Sections: Marker_shape(2),
Readings(1)
|
| 6 | RFM | Reflexive marker affix | Fe'efe'e | Details |
Example Sentences
There are 998 example sentences.
Language Properties
Some syntactic properties of the language
Word order
| Consistently SVO |
General information about the language
Language name
| Fe'efe'e |
Dialect/variety reported
| Fe'efe'e is a Grassfield language spoken in the Upper Nkam Division, Western Region, Cameroon. |
Genetic classification (Ethnologue)
| Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Wide Grassfields, Narrow Grassfields, Mbam-Nkam, Bamileke |
Language group (Ethnologue top level)
| Niger-Congo |
Language consultant information
Consultant name
| Djomeni, Gabriel Delmon |
Level of education
| Graduate Student (Linguistics) |
Language biography
| Fe’efe’e is the native language of the consultant. The parents of the consultant only spoke Fe’efe’e at home, and were themselves native speakers of that language. The consultant received school instruction first in French and then English. |
Learned language at age
| Mother tongue. |
Familiarity with the language
| native speaker |
Formal knowledge of the grammar
| specialized knowledge, e.g., as language teacher or linguist |
Who participated in the elicitation?
| Gabriel Delmon Djomeni and Ken Safir using the Anaphora Questionnaire and the Clausal Complementation Questionnaire. Also Djomeni and Sylvester Ron Simango using the Tense and Aspect Questionnaire and Djomeni and Vicki Carstens using the DP Positions Questionnaire. |
Status of data in database
Is the information for the sentences entered complete?
| Data for entered sentences is complete |
Is the data for markers in this language complete?
| Data for markers incomplete |
Is the sentence data likely to change soon?
| No new sentence data will be entered in the near future |