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Language Contact in the Arctic : Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages /

Language Contact in the Arctic : Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages / ed. by Ernst Hakon Jahr, Ingvild Broch. - 1 online resource (349 p.) - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 88 1861-4302 ; .

I-VIII -- Introduction -- Northern pidgins -- Dual-source pidgins and reverse creoloids: Northern perspectives on language contact -- The special case of Arctic pidgins -- Siberia -- Language contact in northeastern Siberia (Chukotka and Kamchatka) -- Chukchi, English, and Eskimo: A survey of jargons in the Chukotka Peninsula area -- A case of nongenetic development in the Arctic area: The contribution of Aleut and Russian to the formation of Copper Island Aleut -- The Taimyr Peninsula Russian-based pidgin -- Northwestern Russia and Scandinavia -- Solombala-English in Archangel -- The Vardø merchants' reduced Russian -- On the pidgin status of Russenorsk -- Aspect marking and grammaticalization in Russenorsk compared with Immigrant Swedish -- Greenland -- Eskimo pidgin in West Greenland -- North America -- Language contact and pidginization in Davis Strait, Hudson Strait, and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (northeast Canada) -- An Inuit pidgin around Belle-Isle Strait (research note) -- Broken Slavey and Jargon Loucheux: A first exploration -- Arctic origin and domestic development of Chinook Jargon -- Index

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In English.

9783110143355 9783110813302

10.1515/9783110813302 doi


Languages in contact--Arctic regions--Congresses.
Pidgin languages--Arctic regions--Congresses.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

PM7807.A68 / L36 1996eb

417 .22 091632