Melanesian Pidgin English Short Grammar and Vocabulary by Robert A. Hall Jr.
Melanesian Pidgin English Short Grammar and Vocabulary
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Robert A. Hall Jr.
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Melanesian Pidgin English Short Grammar and Vocabulary

Special Publications of the Linguistic Society of America

Robert A. Hall Jr. with Gregory Bateson (Contributor), John W. M. Whiting (Contributor)

28 pages • first pub 1943 (view editions) user-added

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In the islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago and nearby islands, Solomon Islands, etc.), natives and white men talk together, not in ordinary English, but in a special kind of English called Pidgin. If a white man wishes to unders...

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