10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEO-MELANESIAN»
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Neo-Melanesian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Neo-
Melanesian-English Concise Dictionary: New Guinea ...
Spoken primarily in eastern New Guinea and nearby islands, the New Guinea Pidgin language-also called Neo-Melanesian-is one of the most important forms of Pidgin in use today.
New Guinea Pidgin, commonly known as Tok Pisin and, years ago, also as Neo-
Melanesian (though this term remained confined to linguistic literature and never
really gained any currency in New Guinea itself) is the major lingua franca of ...
Nessa Wolfson, Joan Manes, 1985
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Pidginization and Creolization of Languages
the educational advancement of the broad mass of the Territory's population, and
that, therefore, the daily vocabulary of Neo-Melanesian will prove inadequate in a
manner that English would not. In other words, if the rate of political and ...
4
Bibliographie internationale sur le bilinguisme: avec index ...
YES AND NO IN NEO-MELANESIAN MODERN LANGUAGE NOTES. LXXI, 1956,
PP. 502-03. 4041 HALL R. A. JR. NEO-MELANESIAN AND
GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AMERICAN
LINGUISTICS. XXV, 1959 ...
William Francis Mackey, 1982
5
Mortuary Feasting on New Ireland: The Activation of ...
The same is true of the local version of Neo-Melanesian (Pidgin English).
Sursurunga and Neo-Melanesian words are in italics throughout. This is opposed
to the convention of using italics for the first appearance only of a word. My
reason for ...
Alexander H. Bolyanatz, 2000
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
Tok Pisin language (May Subd Geog) UF Neo-Melanesian language [Former
heading] New Guinea pidgin English Pisin language BT Papua New Guinea—
Languages Pidgin English Tok Pisin literature (May Subd Geog) BT Papua New
...
Library of Congress, 2006
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Pidgins, Creoles and Lingua Francas: A Sociolinguistic Study
In addition, Neo- Melanesian has become stabilised, unlike many other pidgins (
12;137f.) This process of stabilisation started under the German colonial
administration in the 1880s. Since it was a foreign language to the Germans they
added ...
8
Approaches to Language: Anthropological Issues
Their function is clearly one of general spatial relationship, e.g. Neo-Melanesian
long (from English along), Sango na, West African Pidgin English fo. More
interesting for our purposes is that these particles fall into sets regularly
identifiable as ...
William C. McCormack, Stephen A. Wurm, 1978
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Rethinking Women's Roles: Perspectives from the Pacific
... District, Simbu Province, and the neighboring Goroka District, Eastern
Highlands Province, have, since about 1960, developed a savings and exchange
system called Wok Meri 'women's work' in the Neo- Melanesian lingua franca (fig.
5).
Denise O'Brien, Sharon W. Tiffany, 1984
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Guardians of the Flutes, Volume 1: Idioms of Masculinity
Like Neo-Melanesian, too (which about 10 percent of the male population spoke)
, informants taught me Sambia as they conveyed cultural knowledge.
Nevertheless, I still have not gained fluency in the language, for it is a difficult one
; and I ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NEO-MELANESIAN»
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Neo-Melanesian is used in the context of the following news items.
Pulitzer-Winning Author Jared Diamond Writes Book On New …
I did not speak Fore, I did not yet speak Pidgin English (neo-Melanesian). I was tired from the long plane flights from the U.S., so I slept late the ... «Asian Scientist Magazine, Dec 12»
