Author: Thomas Edward Dutton
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Category : Pidgin English
Languages : cpe
Pages : 458

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Author: Thomas Edward Dutton
Publisher: Nicholson
ISBN: 9780858833418
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 407

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Author: Thomas Edward Dutton
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ISBN: 9780858836563
Category : Tok Pisin language
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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Author: Thomas Edward Dutton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Thomas E. Dutton
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: John W. M. Verhaar
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027230234
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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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.

Author: Robert Litteral
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: David Scorza
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Category : Tok Pisin language
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: John W.M. Verhaar, S.J.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027282072
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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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.

Author: Peter Mühlhäusler
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027295905
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their extensive fieldwork experience and vast knowledge of the archives relating to Papua New Guinea, Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine compiled this Tok Pisin text collection. It brings together representative samples of the largest Pidgin language of the Pacific area. These texts represent about 150 years of development of this language and will be an invaluable resource for researchers, language policy makers and individuals interested in the history of Papua New Guinea.