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| Type: | Journal article |
| Title: | Multifunctionality in Pitkern-Norf'k and Tok Pisin |
| Author: | Mühlhäusler, P. |
| Citation: | Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 2008; 23(1):75-113 |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins B V Publ |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| ISSN: | 0920-9034 1569-9870 |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Peter Mühlhäusler |
| Abstract: | <jats:p>This paper investigates claims as to the role of categorial multifunctionality in the Pitkern-Norf’k (PN) language. It concludes that the grammar of this construction is far less productive than that of either English or Tahitian (the principal substratum language). Essentially, multifunctionality in PN is a subset of English. In this, it is very different from Tok Pisin, which developed an independent system of categorial multifunctionality over the first 80 years of its existence. The paper makes some suggestions as to why the productivity of the derivational lexicon is so different in the two languages.</jats:p> |
| Keywords: | Pitkern-norf'k tok pisin multifunctionality grammatical description substratum superstratum lexical productivity english-derived contact languages |
| DOI: | 10.1075/jpcl.23.1.04muh |
| Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.23.1.04muh |
| Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Linguistics publications |
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