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5. Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea

From the book The Social Life of Language

  • Gillian Sankoff
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512809589-008
© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112
From the book
The Social Life of Language
The Social Life of Language

Chapters in this book (23)

Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
I. Language in Social and Historical Space
Introduction
1. Political Power and Linguistic Inequality in Papua New Guinea
2. Language Use in Multilingual Societies: Some Alternate Approaches
3. A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence
4. Above and Beyond Phonology in Variable Rules
5. Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea
6. Mutual Intelligibility, Bilingualism, and Linguistic Boundaries
7. Wave Versus Stammbaum Explanations of Lexical Similarities
8. Cognitive Variability and New Guinea Social Organization: the Buang Dgwa
9. Quantitative Analysis of Sharing and Variability in a Cognitive Model
II. Studies of Particular Linguistic Variables
Introduction
10. On the Acquisition of Native Speakers by a Language
11. The Origins of Syntax in Discourse: A Case Study of Tok Pisin Relatives
12. Variability and Explanation in Language and Culture: Cliticization in New Guinea Tok Pisin
13. Anything You Can Do
14. The Productive Use of ne in Spoken Montréal French
15. The Alternation Between the Auxiliaries avoir and être in Montréal French
Bibliography
Indexes
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