Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

Author/Contributor(s):	Keesing, Roger M
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	06/01/1988
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

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.