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Indigenous Language Acquisition, Maintenance, and Loss and Current Language Policies
The first-person plural marking excluding you in front of me. Tok Pisin uses mipla for exclusive first-person plural pronoun.
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Persons and Address Terms in Melanesia: A Contrastive Study
Masahiko Nose (Shiga University, Japan)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2959-1.ch008
Abstract
This chapter deals with vocative and address terms of the several Melanesian languages and tries to investigate the grammatical and sociolinguistic characteristics of them. This study is a contrastive study of the six languages which are spoken in Papua New Guinea (Amele, Bel, and Tok Pisin) and Vanuatu (South Efate, Nguna, and Bislama). This study tries to clarify the characteristics of their lexicon (mainly kinship and address terms) and usages of personal pronouns and their verb inflections. Generally, the sample languages are rich in usages of these terms (kinship, personal pronouns, vocatives) whereas creole languages have limited usages and borrowed from English lexicon. Finally, this study claims that there are several rules of defining social relations and their grammatical forms.
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