A New Bislama Dictionary
Title | A New Bislama Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Crowley |
Publisher | [email protected] |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9789820203624 |
"A new Bislama dictionary is a substantially updated version of the first edition, which reflects the ever-changing vocabulary of Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu."--Back cover.
Bislama Reference Grammar
Title | Bislama Reference Grammar PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Crowley |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2004-05-31 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780824828806 |
Bislama is the national language of Vanuatu, the world's most linguistically diverse nation with at least 80 actively spoken Oceanic languages used by about 200,000 people. Bislama began as a plantation pidgin based on English in the nineteenth century, but it has since developed into a unique language with a grammar and vocabulary very different from English. It is one of very few national languages for which there is no readily available reference grammar. This book aims to fill this gap by providing an extensive account of the grammar of Bislama as it is used by ordinary Ni-Vanuatu. It does not, therefore, aim to describe any kind of artificial written norm but sets out to capture a range of different kinds of ways that Ni-Vanuatu will say things in various contexts, both written and spoken, formal and informal. The thrust of this volume is to show that Bislama has a grammar—an unfamiliar concept for those educated in Vanuatu. It also shows that Bislama is a language of considerable complexity, which will come as a surprise to many of its users, who have been taught to view their language as somehow "simple" and even "deficient."
Bislama
Title | Bislama PDF eBook |
Author | Darrell T. Tryon |
Publisher | Pacific Linguistics |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
A Descriptive Dictionary, Bislama to English
Title | A Descriptive Dictionary, Bislama to English PDF eBook |
Author | William Greenwood Camden |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Beach-la-mar jargon |
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Beach-la-Mar to Bislama
Title | Beach-la-Mar to Bislama PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Crowley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN |
Bislama is the variety of Melanesian Pidgin spoken in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). In this learned study, Crowley traces the history and development of Bislama from the 1840s to the present. Drawing on written records and other historical sources, he examines the language's labor history, and discusses the evolution of its grammatical construction.
Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu)
Title | Constraints on Null Subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu) PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Meyerhoff |
Publisher | Pacific Linguistics |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Bislama language |
ISBN |
Report of the Course ED183 Introduction to Bislama Studies
Title | Report of the Course ED183 Introduction to Bislama Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Crowley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Pidgin English |
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