Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Ethnohistory of speaking 7
5. The ‘language of Tobi’ as presented in Horace Holden’s Narrative 41
6. Language variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic 57
7. How non-Indo-European is Fanakalo pidgin? 85
8. Language change in a multiple contact setting 101
9. Pidgin verbs 141
10. Area index 171
11. Language index 173
12. Subject index 175