Ura
Author : Terry Crowley
Publisher :
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 1999
Category :
ISBN : 9780858835139
Bosavi-English-Tok-Pisin Dictionary (Papua New Guinea)
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN :
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Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin English Dictionary
Author : Susan Baing
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 27,80 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Book Description
"The perfect dictionary for speakers of Tok Pisin who want to improve their English, and speakers of English who want to learn Tok Pisin."--Book jacket.
Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin Dictionary
Author : Craig Volker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2023-07-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780195574029
Book Description
The perfect dictionary for learners of English and Tok Pisin.This concise bilingual reference is the only one of its kind in the world, fully revised and updated to provide a comprehensive language tool. With double the size of the previous edition, it's an invaluable resource for speakers of Tok Pisin who want to improve their English, and speakers of English who want to learn Tok Pisin.Tok Pisin is the official name for the largest lingua franca of Papua New Guinea, a country with more than 800 spoken languages. In a population of more than 5 million, over half are conversant with Tok Pisin. The language has been developed naturally over the last 150 years by the people themselves, as the means of communicating among different language groups.This second edition features:Hundreds of new headwordsInformation about the origins of Tok PisinGuidance on how to use English parts of speech labelsNotes on English irregular verbs and plural formsCoverage of International English, and US and British spelling and vocabulary.
Macmillan Papua New Guinea English Tok Pisin Dictionary
Author : MacMillan Company Staff
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2010
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781420279030
Book Description
A Baruya-Tok Pisin-English Dictionary
Author : J. A. Lloyd
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
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Social Lives in Language Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities
Author : Miriam Meyerhoff
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 36,51 MB
Release : 2008-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902729075X
Book Description
This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating social and linguistic dimensions of variation and change in multilingual communities. Drawing on research in a wide range of countries (Canada, USA, South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu), it explores: connections between the fields of creolistics, language/dialect contact, and language acquisition; how the study of variation and change, particularly in cases of additive bilingualism, is central to understanding social and linguistic issues in multilingual communities; how changing language ideologies and changing demographics influence language choice and/or language policy, and the pivotal place of multilingualism in enacting social power and authority, and a rich array of new empirical findings on the dynamics of multilingual speech communities.
Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea
Author : Ann Turner
Publisher : Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Turner, who has taught history at both the University of Melbourne and the University of Papua New Guinea, provides a basic starting point for those researching both the history and modern culture and life of Papua New Guinea. This dictionary offers brief alphabetical entries on topics including the arts such as "Lapita pottery," international policies, such as relations with Australia, political personalities including Mekere Morauta (economist and politician), languages (there are three official languages and 750 local dialects), and economic and social topics like agriculture and whaling. The 60 page bibliography displays a selection of resources organized topically, including history, culture, and economy. c. Book News Inc.
The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area
Author : Bill Palmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110295253
Book Description
The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of all major regions of the world. The island of New Guinea and its offshore islands is arguably the most diverse and least documented linguistic hotspot in the world - home to over 1300 languages, almost one fifth of all living languages, in more than 40 separate families, along with numerous isolates. Traditionally one of the least understood linguistic regions, ongoing research allows for the first time a comprehensive guide. Given the vastness of the region and limited previous overviews, this volume focuses on an account of the families and major languages of each area within the region, including brief grammatical descriptions of many of the languages. The volume also includes a typological overview of Papuan languages, and a chapter on Austronesian-Papuan contact. It will make accessible current knowledge on this complex region, and will be the standard reference on the region. It is aimed at typologists, endangered language specialists, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and all those interested in linguistic diversity and understanding this least known linguistic region.
The Lexical Typology of Semantic Shifts
Author : Päivi Juvonen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110393069
Book Description
The volume focuses on semantic shifts and motivation patterns in the lexicon. Its key feature is its lexico-typological orientation, i.e. a heavy emphasis on systematic cross-linguistic comparison. The book presents current theoretical and methodological trends in the study of semantic shifts and motivational patters based on an abundance of empirical findings across genetically, areally and typologically diverse languages.
