Title Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin : proceedings of the First International Conference of Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia / edited by John W.M. Verhaar

Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 409 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in language companion series ; v. 20 Studies in language companion series ; v. 20. Contents MELANESIAN PIDGIN AND TOK PISIN; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; The position of Melanesian Pidgin in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea; Verb serialization in Tok Pisin and Kalam: A comparative study of temporal packaging; Serialverbs and prepositions in Bislama; From Old Guinea to Papua New Guinea: A comparative study of Nigerian Pidgin and Tok Pisin; Section B. Grammatical systems; Tok Pisin: Model or special case?; Change and variation in the use of Bai inyoung children's creolized Tok Pisinin Morobe province Code-switching in Gapun: Social and linguistic aspects of language use in a language shifting communityOn the origins of the predicate marker in Tok Pisin; Taim in Tok Pisin: an interesting variationin use from the Southern Highlandsof Papua New Guinea; Obsolescence in the Tok Pisin vocabulary; Idiomatic Tok Pisin and referential adequacy; Mother tongue and Tok Pisin; Problems in translating from Tok Pisin to Muflan; On the translation of official notices into Tok Pisin; Linguistic decisions in the Tok Pisin Bible; Tok Pisin: The language of modernization Summary The First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia was planned mainly for Tok Pisin, but no predetermined theme(s) had been proposed to the participants. Nevertheless, in this collection of papers several principal themes stand out. One is that of a revived interest in substratology, both for Tok Pisin and for Bislama. Another is what in fact amounts to a change in perspective from universalism, as supposedly competitive with the substratological orientation, towards a generalist approach to typology, which reduces the apparent polarity, from a theoretical point of view. A t Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL pda Subject Tok Pisin language -- Congresses Pidgin English -- Melanesia -- Congresses LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General. Pidgin English Tok Pisin language Kongress Melanesia Pidgin-Sprachen. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Madang (1987) Form Electronic book Author Verhaar, John W. M LC no. 89018411 ISBN 9027230234 9789027230232 9789027282071 9027282072 1283234025 9781283234023 9786613234025 6613234028

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