Tok Pisin Texts : From the Beginning to the Present

by Muhlhausler, Peter; Dutton, Thomas Edward; Romaine, Suzanne

• ISBN13: 9781588114563
• ISBN10: 1588114562
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

Sociohistorical and grammatical aspects of Tok Pisin	1	(281)
Peter Muhlhausler
Introduction	1	(1)
Name and area of distribution	2	(3)
External history of Tok Pisin	5	(3)
Internal history of Tok Pisin	8	(5)
The phonology of Tok Pisin	13	(1)
Inflectional morphology	14	(2)
Syntax	16	(9)
General remarks	16	(1)
Word classes	16	(1)
Pronouns	17	(2)
The noun phrase	19	(1)
The verb phrase	20	(1)
Simple sentences	20	(1)
Expansion of simple sentences	21	(1)
Conjoined (co-ordinated) sentences	22	(1)
Embedding of sentences	22	(3)
The lexicon of Tok Pisin	25	(8)
Conclusions	33	(1)
Appendix: Some brief remarks on the texts	33	(2)
From early contacts and Gut Taim Bilong Siaman (the Good Old Days of the German Administration)	35	(22)
The earliest evidence for Pidgin English in the New Guinea area, 1840s	35	(1)
Statements by New Irelanders recruited to the sugar plantations of Queensland, 1880s	36	(1)
Reminiscences of a missionary, 1880s	37	(2)
Recruitment of labour, New Britain 1880s	39	(1)
A list of Pidgin English expressions, 1883	40	(2)
Early spread of Tok Pisin	42	(2)
German New Guinea, early 1900s	44	(1)
Early phonogram recording, 1904	45	(2)
First scholarly account of Tok Pisin, 1911	47	(2)
Ethno-psychological study, 1913	49	(1)
Letters, 1913	50	(1)
Evidence given in a murder trial, c. 1912	51	(1)
Translation of the Geneva Convention, c. 1914	52	(2)
Proclamation, 1914	54	(1)
Examples of Tok Pisin used by the police force, c. 1921	55	(2)
Indigenous voices 1920--1945	57	(8)
Earliest recorded song, 1922	57	(1)
Margaret Mead's observations, 1931	58	(1)
German-influenced Tok Pisin (PM)	59	(1)
Story by a Native policeman, 1943	59	(2)
Letter, 1939 (PM)	61	(1)
Dispute about a pig, 1930	62	(3)
The use of Tok Pisin by missions and government	65	(14)
Extracts from a grammar and dictionary, 1924	65	(1)
Native labour ordinance, 1924	66	(2)
The Lord's Prayer	68	(2)
`Guidance for learning the Tok Boi', a language lesson, 1930	70	(1)
First serial in Tok Pisin, 1935	71	(2)
A hymnal, 1938	73	(3)
Second World War propaganda leaflet	76	(3)
Indigenous voices 1950--1970	79	(8)
Ginger planting, 1950s	79	(2)
Highlands Tok Pisin, 1960s: A story about a snake	81	(6)
Traditional indigenous voices 1970 to the present	87	(64)
Two narratives, 1973 (PM)	87	(3)
Tok Baksait and Tok Bokis, 1949	90	(1)
Tok piksa, talking in metaphors, 1976 (PM)	91	(2)
Playful insults, 1976 (PM)	93	(1)
A conversation around a snooker table, 1976 (PM)	93	(2)
The story of the loaves and fishes (1) (SR)	95	(2)
Extract from a council meeting, East Sepik District, 1972	97	(5)
Baby and caretaker talk	102	(1)
Interview about war experiences (TD)	103	(6)
Interview with a field manager (TD)	109	(6)
Traditional story (TD)	115	(3)
Interview	118	(7)
A Masalai story (TD)	125	(2)
A hunting story (TD)	127	(1)
A traditional story (TD)	128	(2)
Interview (TD)	130	(3)
The development of Tok Pisin on Manus Island (PM)	133	(7)
How Tok Pisin came to Tumam (PM)	140	(3)
Comments on some differences between varieties of Tok Pisin (SR)	143	(4)
Story of first hearing Tok Pisin (SR)	147	(1)
The story of the origin of Tok Pisin (SR)	148	(3)
Translations of foreign voices	151	(30)
Tok Masta in a newspaper article, 1933	151	(2)
Translation of an English bawdy ballad, 1959	153	(2)
Translation of `Max and Moritz'	155	(3)
Translation of Macbeth, 1977	158	(1)
Translation of the highway code, 1969	159	(2)
Example of literary Tok Masta	161	(2)
Japanese propaganda leaflet, c. 1942	163	(2)
Translation of Australian Customs reqirements, 1986	165	(3)
A recipe, 1987	168	(2)
Translation of the Constitution of Papua New Guinea, 1975	170	(4)
How to take care of pigs	174	(3)
The story of the loaves and fishes (2)	177	(4)
Urban Tok Pisin and the influence of English	181	(32)
Code mixing and code switching (PM)	181	(1)
Chain letters	182	(2)
A conversation, 1975	184	(7)
An account of an accident (SR)	191	(3)
Interview	194	(13)
Narrative (SR)	207	(2)
Billy Goats Gruff (SR)	209	(4)
New written genres	213	(54)
Newspaper articles, 1951	213	(3)
A letter to the Editor, 1971	216	(2)
An official letter (SR)	218	(1)
An official letter (SR)	219	(2)
Letter from the wife of a schoolteacher in the Kabwum District (SR)	221	(2)
Letter from a houseboy in Lae (SR)	223	(1)
A letter to the Editor, 1980s	224	(2)
Sports report from Wantok Niuspepa	226	(2)
Report of the week from Wantok Niuspepa	228	(2)
Traim Paspas, a stage play in Tok Pisin	230	(10)
A cartoon from Grass Roots (1)	240	(1)
Cartoon from Grass Roots (2)	241	(2)
Cartoon from Grass Roots (3)	243	(1)
Cartoon from Grass Roots (4)	244	(1)
Cartoon from Grass Roots (5)	245	(1)
Cartoon from Grass Roots (6)	246	(1)
Greeting card (from Grass Roots Comic Company)	247	(3)
Advertisement for Sunflower tinned fish	250	(1)
Advertisement for `Mozzie Zapper'	250	(2)
Political broadside	252	(5)
Minutes of a council meeting (PM)	257	(4)
Advertisement	261	(3)
Unpublished letter to Wantok newspaper	264	(3)
Creolized varieties of Tok Pisin	267	(14)
The story of Little Red Riding Hood (SR)	267	(4)
The story of the pig in the pot (1) (SR)	271	(1)
The story of the pig in the pot (2) (SR)	272	(1)
The story of the sick boy (SR)	273	(1)
A puppet show (SR)	274	(2)
Narrative: tumbuna story (SR)	276	(1)
Two girls talking about the languages they know (SR)	277	(4)
Bibliography	281