Article: Darrell T. Tryon and Jean-Michel Charpentier: Pacific Pidgins and Creoles: Origins, Growth and Development.(Book review)

Encyclopedia entry: TOK PISIN
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language;      700+ words ...TOK PISIN [From English Talk Pidgin . Pronounced ... NEW GUINEA (PNG), officially named Tok Pisin in 1981. It descends from varieties ... where it was passed on to younger boys. Tok Pisin crystallized in the New Guinea islands ...

Article: G.P. Smith Growing Up with Tok Pisin: Contact, ...
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...G.P. SMITH GROWING UP WITH TOK PISIN: CONTACT, CREOLIZATION AND CHANGE IN ... analysis of the status and development of Tok Pisin, or Melanesian Pidgin, amongst one ... he has been exposed to two decades of Tok Pisin, during which time he has noted its ...

Article: Growing up with Tok Pisin: contact, creolization, ...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...SMITH, GEOFF P. Growing up with Tok Pisin: contact, creolization, and change ... according to a recent count (p. 8). Tok Pisin (also known as New Guinea Pidgin, Neo ... Papua New Guinea's national languages. Tok Pisin has been written about by a number of ...

Dictionary definition: Tok Pisin
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      259 words ...Tok Pisin. Language spoken widely in Papua New Guinea. In origin a pidgin based on English, and now the commonest medium of commerce with, in towns, a growing number of native speakers.

Article: Geoff P. Smith. 2003. Growing up with Tok Pisin: ...
Oceanic Linguistics;  December 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...London: Battlebridge Publications. xi + 244 pp. ISBN 1 903292 06 9. 18 [pounds sterling]. Growing up with Tok Pisin (GTP) is not the sociological study that the book's rifle suggests. It is, instead, an extraordinary attempt at writing ...

Article: Niugini i bekim Tok: creolizing global English in Papua New ...
Mosaic (Winnipeg);  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the grammar, syntax, and semantics of Tok Pisin. ********** The powerful presence ... English, and the two creole languages Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu. The story presents new ... pidgin or creole is most appropriate for Tok Pisin and Hiri Motu. In Pidgin and Creole ...

Article: Lokal Musik: Lingua Franca Song and Identity in Papua New Guinea.
Oceania;  March 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... Lokal Musik is the first major study of Tok Pisin song in Papua New Guinea. It is an original ... ToUna cleverly uses multiple registers of Tok Pisin with occasional English code-switches ... power differences that are marked by Tok Pisin and English usage in PNG. The text and ...