Sapos iumi mitim iumi : urbanization and creolization in the Solomon Islands
- Description:
- Solcmon Islands Pijin, the least well documented dialect of Melanesian Pidgin, has been for a century a second and secondary language, a lingua franca of piantations and administration. As with Tok Pisin and Bislama, Pijin has long been expanded and stabilized to a degree far beyond the pidgins whose transformation into creoles has become a focus of universalist grammatical theory. The thesis argues that Pijin, like Tok Pisin and Bislama, is undergoinq creolization. But this, it is proposed, is not primarily a process of nativization, wher...
- Display date:
- 2013
- Location:
- Melanesia
- Format:
- thesis(phd)
- Collections:
- Australian National University Library
- Content partner:
- Australian National University Library
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- Not specified
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