Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents ix
4. Grammatical Abbreviations xii
5. CHAPTER I. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER 2. Interlingual Contact in the Pacific to the Mid--Nineteenth Century 13
7. CHAPTER 3. The Sandalwood Period 26
8. CHAPTER 4. The Labor Trade 35
9. CHAPTER 5. The Tok Pisin Lineage 51
10. CHAPTER 6. Oceanic Austronesian Languages 62
11. CHAPTER 7. Substrate, Superstrate, and Universals 89
12. CHAPTER 8. Structures and Sources of Pidgin Syntax 105
13. CHAPTER 9. The Pidgin Pronominal System 133
14. CHAPTER 10. Subject-Referencing Pronouns and the ''Predicate Marker'' 143
15. CHAPTER 11. The Development of Solomons Pidgin 171
16. CHAPTER 12. The Solomons Pidgin Pronominal System 189
17. CHAPTER 13. Calquing: Pidgin and Solomons Languages 210
18. CHAPTER 14. Conclusion 227
19. Appendix 230
20. References Cited 251
21. Index 261