We explore valency and transitivity patterns in Cameroon Pidgin English (cpe) from a language contact perspective, with particular focus on (a) lexical and (b) constructional phenomena. With respect to (a), many verbs of English origin surface in cpe with additional senses and valency properties to those they display in the lexifier, illustrating the drive towards polysemy in a language with a relatively small lexicon. We also describe category change, whereby English non-verbal expressions (typically adjectives) emerge as verbs in cpe. In terms of (b), verbs undergo valency changes as a consequence of participation in productive serial verb constructions. These constructions are built around a small set of high-frequency verbs, some of which also occur in the light verb construction, which represents another strategy for the creation of complex predicates. We review the evidence for constructional substrate influence. The data under discussion are drawn from two small corpora of spoken cpe.

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联系变体中的价态和传递性：来自喀麦隆 Pidgin 英语的证据

我们从语言接触的角度探索喀麦隆 Pidgin 英语 (cpe) 的价态和及物性模式，特别关注 (a) 词汇和 (b) 结构现象。关于 (a)，许多源自英语的动词出现在 cpe 中，除了它们在词法中显示的意义和价值属性外，还显示出在词汇量相对较小的语言中趋向多义的趋势。我们还描述了类别变化，即英语非语言表达（通常是形容词）在 cpe 中作为动词出现。在 (b) 方面，由于参与生产性连续动词结构，动词经历了价态变化。这些结构是围绕一小组高频动词构建的，其中一些也出现在轻动词结构中，它代表了另一种创建复杂谓词的策略。我们回顾了建筑基材影响的证据。讨论中的数据来自两个小规模的口语 cpe 语料库。