TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Engelberg, Stefan
A1  - Stolberg, Doris
ED  - Maitz, Péter
ED  - Volker, Craig A.
T1  - The influence of German on the lexicon of Tok Pisin
JF  - Language & [and] Linguistics in Melanesia. Journal of the Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea
N2  - 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.
KW  - lexicography
KW  - multiple etymologies
KW  - colonialism
KW  - language contact
KW  - Pacific
KW  - Lehnwort
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - Sprachkontakt
KW  - Pazifischer Ozean <Süd>
KW  - Lexikographie
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-69054
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-69054
UR  - http://www.langlxmelanesia.com/specialissues.htm
SN  - 0023-1959
SS  - 0023-1959
IS  - Special issue 2017
SP  - 27
EP  - 64
PB  - University of Papua New Guinea
CY  - Boroko
ER  -