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Quote: a stable pidgin uses phrase-like formulas for the description of new concepts, e.g., 'smoke eat thing' for 'pipe'

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Thesa programming system
Topic:
pidgin and creole languages

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In the stable pidgin stage, according to Muhlhausler … [Pidgin and Creole Linguistics ,1986, p. 171] … examples from Hiri Motu (a pidgin spoken in … 'smoke eat thing'='pipe'; traka abiaisi gauna, 'truck raise …   Google-1   Google-2

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