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Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
Language
English
Pages
328

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Subjects
English Creole dialects, Languages, Torres Strait Islanders, Dictionaries, English
Places
Torres Strait Islands (Qld.), Australia

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Broken: an introduction to the creole language of Torres Strait
1999, Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
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Broken: An introduction to the Creole language of Torres Strait (Pacific linguistics)
1988, Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
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Table of Contents

Dedication Page iii
Preface Page vii
Map of Torres Strait showing inhabited islands Page xiii
I. Introduction to Broken Page 1
1. General Page 3
1.1. Pidgins and creoles Page 4
1.2. History of Broken Page 4
1.3. Changing attitudes Page 7
2. The Sounds Page 10
2.1. Variation and standardisation Page 10
2.2. Consonants, vowels and diphthongs Page 11
2.3. Syllables Page 12
2.4. Stress Page 13
2.5. Borrowed vocabulary Page 13
2.6. Spelling Page 16
3. The grammar Page 19
3.1. Morphology Page 19
3.2. Nouns, noun phrases and pronouns Page 23
3.3. Verbs and verb phrases Page 37
3.4. Adjectives and adjective phrases Page 52
3.5. Adverbs and adverb phrases Page 54
3.6. Prepositions and preposition phrases Page 55
3.7. Simplex sentences Page 62
3.8. Question sentences Page 64
3.9. Directive sentences Page 70
3.10. Negative sentences Page 72
3.11. Complex sentences Page 76
3.12. Location Page 82
3.13. Direction Page 83
3.14. Interjections Page 83
3.15. Discourse Page 86
4. The vocabulary Page 88
4.1. Borrowed words Page 88
4.2. New formations Page 90
4.3. Name taboo Page 91
5. Bibliography Page 92
II. Dictionary of Broken English Page 95
6. General Page 97
6.1. Aims of the dictionary Page 97
6.2. Problems and solutuions Page 97
6.3. Conventions Page 98
6.4. Abbreviations Page 101
6.5. Examples Page 102
6.6. Notes on the practical word groups Page 102
6.7. Notes on the appedices Page 102
7. The dictionary Page 103
8. Practical word groups Page 231
9. Appendices Page 241
III. English finderlist Page 257
10. General Page 259
10.1. Scope of the finderlist Page 259
10.2. Conventions Page 259
11. Finderlist Page 263
IV. Texts in Broken Page 321
12. General Page 323
12.1. Manki ene totol Page 323
12.2. Da ol man Page 323
12.3. Gedor Page 325
12.4. Mipla go pising Page 325
12.5. Dadi i labap Page 326
12.6. Mark Anthony's speech from Julius Caesar Page 327

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-94).
Includes dictionary of Broken to English.

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Canberra, A.C.T
Series
Pacific linguistics., no. 107

Classifications

Library of Congress
PM7874.T67 S55 1988

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xiii, 328 p. :
Number of pages
328

ID Numbers

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OL1936599M
ISBN 10
0858833816
LCCN
90154958

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