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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785634503321

Titolo

Language contact in the Arctic : northern pidgins and contact languages / / editors, Ernst Håkon Jahr, Ingvild Broch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1996

ISBN

3-11-081330-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; ; 88

Classificazione

EE 1650

Altri autori (Persone)

JahrErnst Håkon <1948->

BrochIngvild

Disciplina

417/.22/091632

Soggetti

Pidgin languages - Arctic regions

Languages in contact - Arctic regions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Chiefly papers presented at the 9th International Tromsø Symposium on Language: Arctic Pidgins, which was held June 4-6, 1992, University of Tromsø.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Introduction -- Northern pidgins -- Dual-source pidgins and reverse creoloids: Northern perspectives on language contact / Trudgill, Peter -- The special case of Arctic pidgins / Hancock, Ian -- Siberia -- Language contact in northeastern Siberia (Chukotka and Kamchatka) / Comrie, Bernard -- Chukchi, English, and Eskimo: A survey of jargons in the Chukotka Peninsula area / Reuse, Willem J. de -- A case of nongenetic development in the Arctic area: The contribution of Aleut and Russian to the formation of Copper Island Aleut / Golovko, Evgenij V. -- The Taimyr Peninsula Russian-based pidgin / Wurm, Stephen A. -- Northwestern Russia and Scandinavia -- Solombala-English in Archangel / Broch, Ingvild -- The Vardø merchants' reduced Russian / Lunden, Siri Sverdrup -- On the pidgin status of Russenorsk / Jahr, Ernst Håkon -- Aspect marking and grammaticalization in Russenorsk compared with Immigrant Swedish / Kotsinas, Ulla-Britt -- Greenland -- Eskimo pidgin in West Greenland / Voort, Hein van der -- North America -- Language contact and pidginization in Davis Strait, Hudson Strait, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (northeast Canada) / Bakker, Peter -- An Inuit pidgin around Belle-Isle Strait (research note) / Dorais, Louis-Jacques -- Broken Slavey and Jargon Loucheux: A first exploration / Bakker, Peter --



Arctic origin and domestic development of Chinook Jargon / Samarin, William J. -- Index