Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

ISBN-13: 9780804714501 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 280 str.

Roger M. Keesing

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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.