Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic Substrate

Grammatical abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Interlingual contact in the Pacific to the mid-nineteenth century 3. The Sandalwood period 4. The labor trade 5. The Tok Pisin language 6. oceanic Austronesian languages 7. Substrate, superstrate, and universals 8. Structures and sources of pidgin syntax 9. The pidgin pronominal system 10. Subject-referencing pronouns and the 'predicate market' 11. The developmental of Solomons pidgin 12. The Solomons pidgin pronominal system 13. Calquing: pidgin and Solomons languages 14. Conclusion Appendix Index.