@article{EngelbergStolberg2018,
  author    = {Stefan Engelberg and Doris Stolberg},
  title     = {The influence of German on the lexicon of Tok Pisin},
  series   = {Language \& [and] Linguistics in Melanesia. Journal of the Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea},
  number    = {Special issue 2017},
  editor    = {P{\´e}ter Maitz and Craig A. Volker},
  publisher = {University of Papua New Guinea},
  address   = {Boroko},
  issn      = {0023-1959},
  url       = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-69054},
  pages     = {27 -- 64},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {In the lexicon of pidgin and creole languages we can see an important part of these languages’ history of origin and of language contact. The current paper deals with the lexical sources of Tok Pisin and, more specifically, with words of German origin found in this language. During the period of German colonial domination of New Guinea and a number of insular territories in the Pacific (ca. 1885–1915), German words entered the emerging Tok Pisin lexicon. Based on a broad range of lexical and lexicographic data from the early 20th century up until today, we investigate the actual or presumed German origin of a number of Tok Pisin words and trace different lexical processes of integration that are linked to various, often though not always colonially determined, contact settings and sociocultural interactions.},
  language  = {en}
}