Chapter 2 Language, education and development - from pre-colonial days to post-colonial society
Chapter 3 Methods
Chapter 4 Lexical expansion, borrowing and change
Chapter 5 Phonological expansion in a developing pidgin/creole
Chapter 6 Morphological variation and change
Chapter 7 Syntactic change
Chapter 8 Tok Pisin i go we? (Where is Tok Pisin going?)
References
Index
Description
Papua New Guinea's struggle for development is intimately
bound up with the history of Tok Pisin, an English-based pidgin
which is the product of 19th-century colonialism in the Pacific.
The language has since become the most important lingua franca in
the region, being spoken by more than a million people in a highly
multilingual society. Suzanne Romaine examines some of the changes
that are taking place in Tok Pisin as it becomes the native language
of the younger generation of rural and urban speakers. These linguistic
processes, which are by no means complete, have to be understood in
the socio-historical context of colonial expansion and strategies for
socio-economic development in the post-colonial era.
