Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. General Studies
5. The Language Situation in the New Guinea Area 3
6. The Language Situation in the New Hebrides 11
7. Remarks on the Language Situation in the Solomon Islands 33
8. Some English-based Pidgins in the Southwestern Pacific 53
9. Ethnography of Speaking
10. Multilingualism: Linguistic Boundaries and Unsolved Problems in Papua New Guinea 81
11. Lexical Expansion in a Non-Austronesian Language of Papua New Guinea 101
12. The Sociolinguistic Significance of Barai Possessive Markers 115
13. Development of a Literary Mode in the Languages of Nonliterary Communities 129
14. Code Switching in Papua New Guinea : Local Languages Versus New Guinea Pidgin, Hiri Motu and English 157
15. Turning the Talk: A Case of Chain-Interpreting in Papua New Guinea 177
16. Lingue Franche in Papua New Guinea
17. Papuan Pidgin English and Hiri Motu 209
18. Sociolects in New Guinea Pidgin 225
19. Attitudes towards New Guinea Pidgin and English 243
20. Language Planning and New Guinea Pidgin 263
21. Some Mission Lingue Franche and their Sociolinguistic Role 277