Darrell T. Tryon

Pacific Pidgins and Creoles

Origins, Growth and Development

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Pacific Pidgins and Creoles discusses the complex and fascinating history of English-based pidgins in the Pacific, especially the three closely related Melanesian pidgins: Tok Pisin, Pijin, and Bislama. The book details the central role of the port of Sydney and the linguistic synergies between Australia and the Pacific islands in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the role of Pacific islander plantation labor overseas, and the differentiation which has taken place in the pidgins spoken in the Melanesian island states in the 20th century. It also looks at the future of Pacific pidgins at a time of increasing vernacular language endanger… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Charpentier, Jean-Michel

ISBN: 978-3-11-089968-9
EAN: 9783110899689
Produktnummer: 13226873
Verlag: De Gruyter
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 578 S.
Plattform: PDF
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Über den Autor

Darrell T. Tryon is Professor at the Australian National University, Australia. Jean-Michel Charpentier researches at the LACITO (Laboratoire de Langues et Cultures a Tradition Orale), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Paris, France.