Name: Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: The Emergence of a Natural Language in Vanuatu (Oxford Studies in Language Contact)
Author: Terry Crowley
ISBN: 9780198248934

Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: The Emergence of a Natural Language in Vanuatu (Oxford Studies in Language Contact)

Terry Crowley

Author Description

Bislama is the variety of Melanesian Pidgin spoken in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). In this learned study, Crowley traces the history and development of Bislama from the 1840s to the present. Drawing on written records and other historical sources, he examines the language's labor history, and discusses the evolution of its grammatical construction.

Page Count:
448

Publication Date:
1990-12-13

ISBN-10:
0198248938

ISBN-13:
9780198248934

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