Melanesian pidgin and Tok Pisin : proceedings of the First International Conference of Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia
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Melanesian pidgin and Tok Pisin : proceedings of the First International Conference of Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia
(Studies in language companion series / series editors, Werner Abraham, Michael Noonan, v. 20)
J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990
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"Held in July 1987 at Divine Word Institute, Madang, Papua New Guinea"--Introd
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia was planned mainly for Tok Pisin, but no predetermined theme(s) had been proposed to the participants. Nevertheless, in this collection of papers several principal themes stand out.One is that of a revived interest in substratology, both for Tok Pisin and for Bislama. Another is what in fact amounts to a change in perspective from universalism, as supposedly competitive with the substratological orientation, towards a generalist approach to typology, which reduces the apparent polarity, from a theoretical point of view. A third is the pervasive interest of contributors in wider language issues in the social and political life of Papua New Guinea.These interests go back to the linguistic and social experience of the participants, most of whom have a long record of living among the people whose languages they have studied on a day-to-day basis, and to the relative remoteness of their inspiration from the more theoretical and perhaps ultimately untestable issues which surround the universalist approach and its claims for a bioprogram foundation for language.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (by Verhaar, S.J., John W.M.)
- 2. The position of Melanesian Pidgin in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea (by Crowley, Terry)
- 3. Verb serialization in Tok Pisin and Kalam: A comparative study of temporal packaging (by Givon, T.)
- 4. Serial verbs and prepositions in Bislama (by Crowley, Terry)
- 5. From Old Guinea to Papua New Guinea: A comparative study of Nigerian Pidgin and Tok Pisin (by Faraclas, Nicholas)
- 6. Tok Pisin: Model or special case (by Muhlhausler, Peter)
- 7. Change and variation in the use of bai in young children's creolized Tok Pisin in Morobe Province (by Romaine, Suzanne)
- 8. Code-switching in Gapun: Social and linguistic aspects of language use in a language shifting community (by Kulick, Don)
- 9. On the origins of the predicate marker in Tok Pisin (by Muhlhausler, Peter)
- 10. Taim in Tok Pisin: an interesting variation in use from the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea (by Button, Tom)
- 11. Obsolescence in the Tok Pisin vocabulary (by Mihalic, Frank)
- 12. Idiomatic Tok Pisin and referential adequacy (by Smith, Geoff)
- 13. Mother tongue and Tok Pisin (by Reesink, Ger P.)
- 14. Problems in translating from Tok Pisin to Mufian (by Conrad, Bob)
- 15. On the translation of official notices into Tok Pisin (by Franklin, Karl J.)
- 16. Linguistic decisions in the Tok Pisin Bible (by Mundhenk, Norm)
- 17. Tok Pisin: The language of modernization (by Litteral, Robert L.)
- 18. The future of Tok Pisin: Social, political, and educational dimensions (by Lynch, John)
- 19. A course in practical Tok Pisin (by Thomas, Dicks R.)
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