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- Title
THE DEVELOPMENT OF WORD-FORMATION IN TOK PISIN.
- Authors
Mühlhäusler, Peter
- Abstract
This article examines the development of word-formation in Tok Pisin. The most noticeable property which distinguishes Tok Pisin not only from other pidgin languages, including extended pidgins such as West African Pidgin English, as well as some creoles, is a highly developed derivational lexicon. This component of grammar enables speakers of Tok Pisin to make up new lexical items as they are required and together with the great syncretic capacity of Tok Pisin accounts for the ease with which it has coped with the greatly extended communicative requirements since its linguistic beginnings in the 1880s.
- Subjects
TOK Pisin language; WORD formation (Grammar); COMPARATIVE grammar; GRAMMAR; LINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE &; languages; COMMUNICATION
- Publication
Folia Linguistica, 1983, Vol 17, Issue 3/4, p463
- ISSN
0165-4004
- Publication type
Article