Mambila Linguistic Research

• A preliminary report of linguistic fieldwork undertaken in Jan 1999 by Connell and Blench: including news of two previously undocumented languages
• Bruce Connell ESRC funded Comparative survey of Mambila dialects
  Results of this project:
  • Voices from the Grave: Dying languages and the complexity of the Mambiloid group - abstract
  • Four tones and downtrend: a preliminary report on pitch realization in Mambila, a language with four level tones A revised version of a paper presented to the 27th ACAL, University of Florida, Gainesville, 29-31 Mar 1996 and the LAGB, University of Sussex, Brighton, 11-13 Apr 1996.
  • The Roots of Mambila: Convergence and divergence in the development of Mambila Text of a paper presented at the 26th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics, Leiden, The Netherlands, Sept. 5-7 1996.
  • Mambila Fricative Vowels a paper presented at ACAL 28, Cornell University, July 11-13 1997 to appear in Carstens, Vicki (ed.) Proceedings of ACAL 28
  • THE INTEGRITY OF MAMBILOID a paper presented at the Second World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig, July 27 - August 3 1997.
  • MORIBUND LANGUAGES OF THE NIGERIA-CAMEROON BORDERLAND a paper presented at the Symposium on Language Endangerment in Africa Leipzig, July 29 - 31, 1997
  
  
• NB Work on the Somié dictionary is ongoing (2017)