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Language contact in the early colonial Pacific: maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English

Part of the Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact series
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This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of maritime Polynesian Pidgin.

It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact.

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Cambridge University Press
1139860712 / 9781139860710
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
499.4
31/03/2014
England
English
354 pages
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