Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

By Roger M. Keesing

Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate
Preview available
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.

Book Details