Change and variation in the use of bai in young children's creolized Tok Pisin in Morobe Province

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. The position of Melanesian Pidgin in Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea 1
5. Verb serialization in Tok Pisin and Kalam 19
6. Serial verbs and prepositions in Bislama 57
7. From Old Guinea to Papua New Guinea 91
8. Tok Pisin 171
9. Change and variation in the use of bai in young children's creolized Tok Pisin in Morobe Province 187
10. Code-switching in Gapun 205
11. On the origins of the predicate marker in Tok Pisin 235
12. Taim in Tok Pisin 251
13. Obsolescence in the Tok Pisin vocabulary 263
14. Idiomatic Tok Pisin and referential adequacy 275
15. Mother tongue and Tok Pisin 289
16. Problems in translating from Tok Pisin to Mufian 307
17. On the translation of official notices into Tok Pisin 323
18. Linguistic decisions in the Tok Pisin Bible 345
19. Tok Pisin 375
20. The future of Tok Pisin 387
21. A course in practical Tok Pisin 399