“Eh, you stay awesome, cuz you stay God!”:the changes in meaning and register in English-based Hawai’i Creole and Tok Pisin loanwords
This thesis looks at the English-lexifier loanwords in two creole languages spoken on the islands of the Pacific Ocean, Hawai’i Creole English and Tok Pisin. It is estimated that about 75 % of vocabulary in Hawai’i Creole and some 80 % of Tok Pisin vocabulary is English-based. The aim is to find out...
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University of Oulu
2014
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| Online Access: | http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201409041826 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:fi:oulu-201409041826 |