A Note on the Pronominal System of Arafundi-Enga Pidgin

Williams, Jeffrey P.

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“…These include Pidgin Swahili in Africa and Chinook Jargon in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Trade pidgins used between speakers of neighbouring unrelated languages in New Guinea include Yimas-Arafundi Pidgin (Foley, 2013), Arafundi-Enga Pidgin (Williams, 1995), Pidgin Iatmul in the Middle Sepik region of New Guinea (Foley, 1986) and the putative Kwoma-Manambu Pidgin (Bowden, 1997;Aikhenvald, 2008). These pidgins stand apart from European trade jargons in that they developed between traditional trade partners rather than in the situations of new contacts (Parkvall & Bakker, 2013a.…”

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The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: Past, Present and Future

2024

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Guide to Gender and Classifiers (OUP, forthcoming), in addition to a general interest book I Saw the Dog: How Language Works (London, Profile Books). Her current focus is on the integration of language and society and the ways of conceptualising disease and well-being in minority languages and cultures, and investigation of languages and cultures of Amazonia and New Guinea, including a comprehensive grammar of Yalaku, from East Sepik. xiii CONTRIBUTORS Shaun Gessler is an anthropology PhD candidate from the Australian National University's Department of Pacific Affairs. His thesis investigates the relationship between the Chinese majority-run Ramu Nickel Cobalt Project in Papua New Guinea and the indigenous communities on whose land the mine is located. Shaun has professional experience in Papua New Guinea working and volunteering in international development, which underpins his research interests in the anthropology of development, the social impacts of resource extraction and China's rise in the Pacific.Cathy Hair has broad experience in tropical aquaculture and fisheries. She has been involved with projects in the Pacific Islands region for more than two decades, working on aquaculture commodities for livelihoods and food security. In 2020 she completed her PhD, a multidisciplinary thesis on development of community-based sea cucumber mariculture in Papua New Guinea. Cathy is an Adjunct Fellow within the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University and the School of Science, Technology and Engineering at the University of the Sunshine Coast.

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Section: Section 2: Pidgins Creoles and Foreigner Talk: A Backdropmentioning

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Trade, mines and language: The Chinese in Papua New Guinea

Aikhenvald

2024

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The island of New Guinea is the locus of extreme linguistic and cultural diversity: about a thousand languages spoken there belong to at least sixty families, in addition to quite a few isolates (linguistic 'orphans' with no known relatives). The advent of the European coloniser has added an extra dimension to this diversity. The emergence and spread of Tok Pisina national language and a lingua franca of Papua New Guinea (PNG), based on English-has affected the linguistic ecosystem of the country. What about the Chinese, a major group of expatriates?The growth of Chinese immigration to PNG over the past few decades and the rapid establishment of Chinese-run enterprises are likely precursors to the emergence of special registers and new ways of speaking-a further splash of colour in the patchwork quilt of the diverse linguistic ecosystem in PNG. Two contributions to this volume, by I-Chang Kuo and by Shaun Gessler, focus on newly arising means of communication between Chinese and Papua New Guineans in the Basamuk nickel refinery in Madang Province.

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“…Arafundi-Enga Pidgin of the Sepik area in Papua New Guinea (Williams 1995) has a very rare way of marking plurality, which is apparently not found in the contact languages. It uses a suprafix in the form of distinctive vowel length to indicate plurality.…”

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“…However, some pidgins show morphological subject inflection -which is a simplification because the lexifiers also have object inflection. Subject inflection is found in Pidgin Ojibwe, Pidgin A-70, Central Hiri Motu (Roberts ms.), and Arafundi-Enga Pidgin (where Arafundi suffixes are used on Enga verbs; Williams 1993Williams , 1995.…”

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Pidgin inflectional morphology and its implications for creole morphology

Bakker

2003

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A Note on the Pronominal System of Arafundi-Enga Pidgin

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The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: Past, Present and Future

The Chinese in Papua New Guinea: Past, Present and Future

Trade, mines and language: The Chinese in Papua New Guinea

Pidgin inflectional morphology and its implications for creole morphology

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