Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

Keesing, Roger M.

Published by Stanford University Press (1988), Stanford, 1988

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xii, 265 pp, 23x15cm, Contents: Introduction; Interlingual Contact in the Pacific to the Mid-19 th Century; The Sandalwood Period; The Labor Trade; The Tok Pisin Language;Oceanic Austronesian Languages; Substrate, Superstrate, & Universals; Structures & Sources of Pidgin Syntax; The Pidgin Pronominal System; Subject-Referencing Pronouns & the "Predicate Marker"; The Development of Solomons Pidgin; The Solomons Pidgin Pronominal System; Calquing: Pidgin & Solomons Languages; Conclusion. Minor rubbing, VG., dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # 008531

Bibliographic Details

Title: Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

Publisher: Stanford University Press (1988), Stanford

Publication Date: 1988

Binding: orig. cloth