A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages

A Comparative Study of the Melanesian Island Languages
Author: Sidney Herbert Ray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 629
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107682029

This book, first published in 1928, is an exhaustive study of the languages of Melanesia and the attendant islands.

Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate
Author: Roger M. Keesing
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1988
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780804714501

Topics in this volume include: interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-19th century; the Sandalwood period; the Tok Pisin language; oceanic Austronesian languages; structures and sources of pidgin syntax; the pidgin pronominal system; and calquing - pidgin and Solomons languages.