The influence of German on the lexicon of Tok Pisin
- 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.
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| Author: | Stefan EngelbergORCiDGND, Doris Stolberg |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-69054 |
| URL: | http://www.langlxmelanesia.com/specialissues.htm |
| ISSN: | 0023-1959 |
| Parent Title (English): | Language & [and] Linguistics in Melanesia. Journal of the Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea |
| Publisher: | University of Papua New Guinea |
| Place of publication: | Boroko |
| Editor: | Péter Maitz, Craig A. Volker |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2017 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/01/09 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | Pacific; colonialism; language contact; lexicography; multiple etymologies |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Kolonialismus; Lehnwort; Lexikographie; Pazifischer Ozean <Süd>; Sprachkontakt |
| Issue: | Special issue 2017 |
| First Page: | 27 |
| Last Page: | 64 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Lexikographie, Wörterbücher |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Lexikografie |
| Program areas: | Lexik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |