Author: Keesing, Roger M.
Title: Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1988). orig. cloth, dustwrapper. xii, 265 pp, 23x15cm,. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Interlingual Contact in the Pacific to the Mid-19 th Century; The Sandalwood Period; The Labor Trade; The Tok Pisin Language;Oceanic Austronesian Languages; Substrate, Superstrate, & Universals; Structures & Sources of Pidgin Syntax; The Pidgin Pronominal System; Subject-Referencing Pronouns & the "Predicate Marker"; The Development of Solomons Pidgin; The Solomons Pidgin Pronominal System; Calquing: Pidgin & Solomons Languages; Conclusion.

Keywords: Melanesia, Pidgin English, Melanesian Pidgins, Anthropological, Oceanic Linguistics, Solomon Islands, Melanesia Ethnology, Austronesian, Papua New Guinea, Tok Pisin Language