Language Contact in the Arctic : : Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages / / ed. by Ernst Hakon Jahr, Ingvild Broch.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1996
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 88
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Physical Description:1 online resource (349 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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