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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Roger M Keesing |
ISBN: | 0804714509 9780804714501 |
OCLC Number: | 17383715 |
Language Note: | Includes text in Tok Pisin. |
Description: | viii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | Roger M. Keesing. |
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