A Primer of Police Motu
Author: Percy Chatterton
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 31
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Author: Percy Chatterton
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 31
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Brett
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 65
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah G. Thomason
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1997-03-06
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9027275874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contributes to a more balanced view of the most dramatic results of language contact by presenting linguistic and historical sketches of lesser-known contact languages. The twelve case studies offer eloquent testimony against the still common view that all contact languages are pidgins and creoles with maximally simple and essentially identical grammars. They show that some contact languages are neither pidgins nor creoles, and that even pidgins and creoles can display considerable structural diversity and structural complexity; they also show that two-language contact situations can give rise to pidgins, especially when access to a target language is withheld by its speakers. The chapters are arranged according to language type: three focus on pidgins (Hiri Motu, by Tom Dutton; Pidgin Delaware, by Ives Goddard; and Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin, by George L. Huttar and Frank J. Velantie), two on creoles (Kituba, by Salikoko S. Mufwene, and Sango, by Helma Pasch), one on a set of pidgins and creoles (Arabic-based contact languages, by Jonathan Owens), one on the question of early pidginization and/or creolization in Swahili (by Derek Nurse), and five on bilingual mixed languages (Michif, by Peter Bakker and Robert A. Papen; Media Lengua and Callahuaya, both by Pieter Muysken; and Mednyj Aleut and Ma’a, both by Sarah Thomason). The authors’ collective goal is to help offset the traditional emphasis, within contact-language studies, on pidgins and creoles that arose as an immediate result of contact with Europeans, starting in the Age of Exploration. The accumulation of case studies on a wide diversity of languages is needed to create a body of knowledge substantial enough to support robust generalizations about the nature and development of all types of contact language.
Author: Thomas Edward Dutton
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 320
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen A. Wurm
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-02-11
Total Pages: 1903
ISBN-13: 3110819724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“An absolutely unique work in linguistics publishing – full of beautiful maps and authoritative accounts of well-known and little-known language encounters. Essential reading (and map-viewing) for students of language contact with a global perspective.” Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath, Max-Planck-Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie The two text volumes cover a large geographical area, including Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, South -East Asia (Insular and Continental), Oceania, the Philippines, Taiwan, Korea, Mongolia, Central Asia, the Caucasus Area, Siberia, Arctic Areas, Canada, Northwest Coast and Alaska, United States Area, Mexico, Central America, and South America. The Atlas is a detailed, far-reaching handbook of fundamental importance, dealing with a large number of diverse fields of knowledge, with the reported facts based on sound scholarly research and scientific findings, but presented in a form intelligible to non-specialists and educated lay persons in general.
Author: Michael A. B. Deakin
Publisher: Aust Council for Ed Research
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 0864317573
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the history and anthropology of the expression of numbers throughout the ages and across different cultures. It deals with the different ways that number representation has been structured, the history and prehistory of number concepts, and the evolution of numerical representation (in word and symbol). These themes are explored through the various expressions of number-concepts in different cultures in different places and times.
Author: Paul A. Geraghty
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 492
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