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Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English - Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact Drechsel, Emanuel J. (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English - Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
Drechsel, Emanuel J. (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
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.
370 pages, 4 maps 3 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 27, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781107015104 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 349 |
| Dimensions | 154 × 234 × 23 mm · 612 g |
| Language | English |