Melanesian Pidgin English : Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary

176 Pages·7.107 MB·English

by  Robert A. Hall Jr.

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MELANESIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH
GRAMMAR, TEXTS, VOCABULARY
AMS PRESS
NEW YORK

SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
OF THE
LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
EDITED BY
BERNARD BLOCH
Yale University
KEMP MALONE M. B. EMENEAU
Johns Hopkins University University of California
ROBERT A. HALL JR.
Brown University
MELANESIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH
GRAMMAR, TEXTS, VOCABULARY
BY
ROBERT A. HALL JR.
Assistant Professor of Italian, Brown University
With the collaboration of
Gregoey Bateson Margaret Mead
Phyllis M. Kaberry Stephen W. Reed
John W. M. Whiting
Published by the
LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA
AT THE WAVERLY PRESS, INC.
Mount Royal and Guilford Avenues
Baltimore, Md. 1943
44 W8C
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Hall, Robert Anderson, 1911-
Melanesian pidgin English.
Reprint of the ed. published by the Linguistic
Society of America at the Waverly Press, Baltimore, and
issued in the Society’s Special publications series.
Bibliography: p.
1. Neo-Melanesian language. I. Title. II. Series:
Linguistic Society of America. Special publications.
PM7891.Z9N44 1980 427'.9'93 75-35114
ISBN 0-404-14131-5
Copyright 1943 by
The American Council of Learned Societies.
Published by Arrangement with
The American Council of Learned Societies.
Reprinted from the edition of 1943, Baltimore. [Trim size
and text area of the original have been slightly altered in
this edition. Original trim size: 17.2 x 25.3 cm; text area:
12.4 x 20.6 cm.]
MANUFACTURED
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To
LEONARD BLOOMFIELD
32152&
Your attention is called to the Appendix (Suggestions for Practical Use)
on p. 159, which contains an explanation of the alphabet used in this book,
and instructions for its use in simplified form when necessary.