Growing Up with Tok Pisin: Contact, Creolization, and Change in Papua New Guinea's National LanguageBattlebridge, 2002 - 244 Seiten Tok Pisin is the Pidgin English language that was introduced to Papua New Guinea in the late 19th century as a way for this linguistically complex society to communicate with a common language. This book provides the historical background for this language and a detailed account of the changes that are taking place in its pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar as it is increasingly adopted as the first language of young people throughout the country. |
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Prologue | 1 |
continued | 18 |
Research design and procedure | 23 |
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