Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: The Emergence of a Natural Language in Vanuatu (Language Contact Series)
Book Details
Author(s)
Terry Crowley
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN / ASIN
0198248938
ISBN-13
9780198248934
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Sales Rank
#10,011,689
Category
Foreign Language Study
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Description
Bislama is the variety of Melanesian Pidgin spoken in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). In this learned study, Crowley traces the history and development of Bislama from the 1840s to the present. Drawing on written records and other historical sources, he examines the language's labor history, and discusses the evolution of its grammatical construction.
