Cameron spent more than 20 years with SIL Cameroon, together with his wife and three children, researching and promoting linguistic research and Bible translation as part of the Ndop cluster, a group of 10 related languages located in the North West Region of Cameroon. He is a member of Wycliffe Bible Translators. He has taught linguistics courses at the Cameroon Baptist Theological Seminary, and Institut pour le Développement des Langues et de la Traduction en Afrique. He has also led several workshops for mother tongue translators and literacy workers, helping them discover the linguistic structures of their languages.
Certificate of Bible Translation (Jerusalem Center for Bible Translators and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, 2017)
Master of Applied Linguistics and Exegesis (Trinity Western Seminary at Trinity Western University; 2008)
Bachelor of Arts: Intercultural Studies (Prairie Bible College; 1995)
Cameron has researched and written on linguistic topics related to the Chufie' language of Cameroon. Research topics include noun classes, morphology, syntax, discourse analysis, pronominal systems, TAM, Grassfields Bantu languages, Bantoid languages.
Hamm, Cameron and Tongwe Rene Majenpoh. 2024. The verb phrase in Chufie’ (Bafanji). Yaoundé: SIL. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36439.28326 ht
Hamm, Cameron. 2024. Supapyag (Baba 1) Orthography Guide. Yaoundé: SIL. https://www.silcam.org/
Hamm, Cameron (ed.). 2024. Chufie–English Dictionary. Webonary.org SIL International. https://www.
Hamm, Cameron and Tongwe Rene Majenpoh. 2021. Clause and sentence structure in Chufie’ (Bafanji). Yaoundé: SIL. Online. URL: https://www.sil.org/
Hamm, Cameron. 2016. Reduction of noun classes and the emergence of semantic classification in Bafanji (Grassfields, Cameroon). In G. G. Atindogbe and E. F. Chibaka (eds) Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August, 2012. Vol 1, pp 132-151. https://www.
Hamm, Cameron. 2016. Boundaries, Backgrounding and Highlighting in a Chufie’ (Bafanji) Narrative Text. Yaoundé: SIL. https://www.sil.org/
Hamm, Cameron 2016. Bafanji (Chufie’) Orthography Guide. (Revision of tone section). Yaoundé: SIL. https://www.sil.org/
Hamm, Cameron. 2011. The noun class system of Chufie' (Bafanji). Yaoundé: SIL. https://www.sil.org/
Hamm, Cameron and Valerie Hamm. 2007. A phonological sketch of Bafanji (Chufie’). Yaoundé: SIL. https://www.sil.org/
Hamm, Valerie and Cameron Hamm. 2007. Bafanji (Chufie’) Orthography Guide. Yaoundé: SIL.
Beavon-Ham, Virginia, Cameron Hamm and Rachel Robinson. 2024. Subjunctive marking in Grassfields languages that lack verbal subject markers. Paper presented at the 2nd Conference on Bantoid Languages and Linguistics, University of Yaounde I, 6-8 June, 2024.
Hamm, Cameron. 2021. Basic and compound subject pronouns in Chufie'. Paper presented at WOCAL 10, 7-11 June, 2021, Leiden University, Netherlands. Online. URL: https://osf.io/erq58/.
Hamm, Cameron. 2019. The particle la in Bafanji (Chufie’) and other Nun languages. NASCAL2, University of Dschang, March 12-13, 2019. Online. URL: https://www.sil.org/
LING 460/560 Morphosyntax II
