TY - CHAP
T1 - Contact Languages of the Pacific
AU - Siegel, Jeff
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - With over 1,000 indigenous languages and a recent history of colonial exploitation, the Pacific region has provided a fertile context for the growth of contact languages. This chapter first describes new languages (pidgins and creoles) and then new dialects (koines and indigenized varieties) that have emerged in the Pacific as the result of language contact. For the purpose of this chapter, the Pacific region is defined as including only small island countries and territories (thus excluding Australia, New Zealand, and the countries of Asia and the Americas that border the Pacific Ocean). Also, due to space limitations, the chapter concentrates only on lexicon and morphosyntax.
AB - With over 1,000 indigenous languages and a recent history of colonial exploitation, the Pacific region has provided a fertile context for the growth of contact languages. This chapter first describes new languages (pidgins and creoles) and then new dialects (koines and indigenized varieties) that have emerged in the Pacific as the result of language contact. For the purpose of this chapter, the Pacific region is defined as including only small island countries and territories (thus excluding Australia, New Zealand, and the countries of Asia and the Americas that border the Pacific Ocean). Also, due to space limitations, the chapter concentrates only on lexicon and morphosyntax.
KW - Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
KW - Language in Time and Space (incl Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
KW - Linguistics
UR - http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36333491
U2 - 10.1002/9781444318159.ch40
DO - 10.1002/9781444318159.ch40
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781405175807
SN - 1444318152
SN - 9781444318159
SN - 140517580X
T3 - Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
SP - 814
EP - 836
BT - The Handbook of Language Contact
A2 - Hickey, Raymond
PB - Blackwell Publishing Ltd
CY - Chichester, United Kingdom
ER -