Subject: tok pisin - thanks

lund 941210 to the linglist readers , some weeks ago i published a query about tok pisin on behalf of my student . the response we got was overwhelming , and we wish to express our thanks to all of you who responded , namely tony bex , august cluver , karl franklin , erland gadelii , debra hardison , michael kac , gerardo lorenzino , hiro masuda , ritsuko onoyama - kikusawa , ingo plag , mark sebba and raymond tang we here publish a summary of all responses , and we will also contact some of you personally . ann lindvall ( ann . lindvall @ ling . lu . se ) aitchison , jean bible society . papua new guinea bickerton , d . 1975 . dynamics of a creole system . cambridge : cambridge university press bickerlon , d . 1981 . roots of language . ann arbor ( ml ) : karoma publishers byrne , f . and t . huebner ( eds . ) . 1991 . development and structures of creole languages : essays in honor of derek bickerton . amsterdam : john benjamins byrne , f . and d . winford . 1993 . focus and grammatical relations in creole languages . amsterdam : benjamins counts , c . d . a . 1982 . ol stori bilong laupu ( the tales of laupu ) . papua new guinea : institute of papua new guinea studies crystal , david . 1987 . the cambridge encyplopedia of language . cup dutton day , r . r . 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" in : language and communicalion 2 , 2 : 105-121 m ~ hlh { usler , p . 1982b . " etymology and pidgin and creole languages . " in : transactions of the philological society 99-118 muehlhauesler , peter . 1984 . oxford : blackwell m ~ hlh { usler , p . 1985a . " variation in tok pisin . " in : wurm , s . a . and p . m ~ hlh { usler ( eds . ) 1985 . handbook of tok pisin ( ncw guinea pidgin ) . ( pacific linguistic c-70 ) . canberra : australian national university : 233-273 m ~ hlh { usler , p . 1985b . " tok pisin and its relevance to theoretical issues in creolistics and general linguistics . " in : wurm , s . a . and p . m ~ hlh { usler ( eds . ) 1985 . handbook of tok pisin ( new guinea pidgin ) . ( pacific linguistic c-70 ) . canberra : australian national university : 443-483 m ~ hlh { usler , p 1985c . " the scientific study of tok pisin : language planning and the tok pisin lexicon . " in : wurm , s . a . and p . m ~ hlh { usler ( eds . ) 1985 . handbook of tok pisin ( new guinea pidgin ) . ( pacific linguistic c-70 ) . canberra : australian national university : 595-664 m ~ hlh { usler , p . 1985d . " synonymy and communication across lectal boundaries in tok pisin . " in : hancock , i . f . ( ed . ) 1985 diversity and development in english - related crcoles . ann arbor ( mi ) : karoma publishers : 134-153 m ~ hlh { usler , p . 1985e . " kritische bemerkungen zu w | rterb ~ cher des tok pisin und anderer kreolsprachen . " in : boretzky , n . , w . enninger and th . stolz ( eds . ) 1985 . akten des l . essener kolloquims ~ ber " kreolsprachen und sprachkontakte . " bochum : studienverlag dr . n . brockmeyer : 71-85 m ~ hlh { usler , p . 1986 . pidgin and creole linguistics . oxford : basil blackwell m ~ hlh { usler , p . 1991 . " the changing status of melanesian pidgin english . 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( pacific linguistic series c-70 ) . canberra : australian national university z ' graggen , john . anthropos institute , the australian national university , canberra , australia
