Publication of Grammar of Mupun

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ABSTRACT The aim of the project is the publication of the Grammar of Mupun. Mupun is a West Chadic language, spoken in the Plataeu State of Nigeria. The Grammar and an accompanying Dictionary are the first full descriptions of this language and also the most complete body of information on any language from the Angas group, to which Mupun belongs. The two books were written with the support of an NSF grant. The dictionary received a Kayden Prize in the Humanities, an award that provides support for the publication of the book. The Grammar presents a number of analyses and facts of interest for general linguistics. In addition, observation in the field indicates that the language is in extremely vulnerable situation because the educated youth are more and more replacing Mupun in their daily speech by eith Hausa or English. The Grammar and the Dictionary will be thus the record of a language in jeopardy of extinction within a few generations.