Melanesian Pidgin and the oceanic substrate
Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages.
Print Book, English, (c)1988
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., (c)1988
viii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780804714501, 0804714509
17383715
Grammatical abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-nineteenth century; 3. The Sandalwood period; 4. The labor trade; 5. The Tok Pisin language; 6. oceanic Austronesian languages; 7. Substrate, superstrate, and universals; 8. Structures and sources of pidgin syntax; 9. The pidgin pronominal system; 10. Subject-referencing pronouns and the 'predicate market'; 11. The developmental of Solomons pidgin; 12. The Solomons pidgin pronominal system; 13. Calquing: pidgin and Solomons languages; 14. Conclusion; Appendix; Index.
Includes text in Tok Pisin