Growing Up with Tok Pisin

Contact, Creolization, and Change in Papua New Guinea's National Language

• Author(s): Geoff P. Smith,
• Publisher: Battlebridge
• Pages: 244
• ISBN_10: 1903292069
  ISBN_13: 9781903292068
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous , Foreign Language Study / Oceanic & Australian Languages , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General ,

Description:... Tok Pisin is the Pidgin English language that was introduced to Papua New Guinea in the late 19th century as a way for this linguistically complex society to communicate with a common language. This book provides the historical background for this language and a detailed account of the changes that are taking place in its pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar as it is increasingly adopted as the first language of young people throughout the country.