Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017

1107699614 / 9781107699618

Series: Book 9 of 18 - Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact

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Paperback. This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the eastern Pacific by arguing that Maritime Polynesian Pidgin preceded the introduction of Pidgin English by as much as a century. Emanuel J. Drechsel not only opens up new methodological avenues for historical-sociolinguistic research in Oceania by a combination of philology and ethnohistory, but also gives greater recognition to Pacific Islanders in early contact between cultures. Students and researchers working on language contact, language typology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics will want to read this book. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact. This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific (Paperback)
Author
Emanuel J. Drechsel
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Publication year
2017
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Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
1107699614
ISBN 13
9781107699618
Series
Book 9 of 18: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact

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