Author: David ScorzaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tok Pisin language
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
An Advanced Course in Tok Pisin
Author: David ScorzaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tok Pisin language
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin
Author: John W.M. Verhaar, S.J.Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027282072
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
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 third is the pervasive interest of contributors in wider language issues in the social and political life of Papua New Guinea.These interests go back to the linguistic and social experience of the participants, most of whom have a long record of living among the people whose languages they have studied on a day-to-day basis, and to the relative remoteness of their inspiration from the more theoretical and perhaps ultimately untestable issues which surround the universalist approach and its claims for a bioprogram foundation for language.
Atlantic Meets Pacific
Author: Francis ByrnePublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027252327
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
For review see: Peter Bakker, in New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 70, no. 1 & 2 (1996); p. 190-192.
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creole dialects
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Pacific Linguistics
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Tales from 1986-1997, indices, glossary, references and maps
Author: Thomas H. SlonePublisher:
ISBN: 0971412715
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
A two-volume collection of folktales that were published in Papua New Guinea's Wantok newspaper. The two-volume collection presents the complete set of 1047 folktales that were originally published from 1972 through 1997 in Tok Pisin.
Growing Up with Tok Pisin
Author: Geoff P. SmithPublisher: Battlebridge Publications
ISBN:
Category : Papua New Guinea
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Tok Pisin is the Pidgin English language that was introduced to Papua New Guinea in the late 19th century as a way for this linguistically complex society to communicate with a common language. This book provides the historical background for this language and a detailed account of the changes that are taking place in its pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar as it is increasingly adopted as the first language of young people throughout the country.
Traim Tasol
Author: Karl James FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Emergence of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Author: Jeff SiegelPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199216665
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This book examines the emergence of pidgins and creoles and the controversies surrounding current theories about them. Among the questions considered are why their grammars are simple, at the pidgin-creole-postcreole life cycle, and the causes of grammatical innovation. The analysis is supported with detailed examples and case studies.
Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin
Author: John W. M. VerhaarPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027230234
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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 third is the pervasive interest of contributors in wider language issues in the social and political life of Papua New Guinea.These interests go back to the linguistic and social experience of the participants, most of whom have a long record of living among the people whose languages they have studied on a day-to-day basis, and to the relative remoteness of their inspiration from the more theoretical and perhaps ultimately untestable issues which surround the universalist approach and its claims for a bioprogram foundation for language.
