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Growth And Structure Of The Lexicon Of New Guinea Pidgin / Book Review, Terence Hays Jun 2011

Growth And Structure Of The Lexicon Of New Guinea Pidgin / Book Review, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

New Guinea Pidgin (NGP) is the language of politics and the most widely used lingua franca in Papua New Guinea. It may also provide a crucial test case for theories of pidgin and creole languages and, more broadly, "for statements about the relationship between the internal and external history of language and that between linguistic variation and social stratification."