Emanuel J. Drechsel. Language Contact in the Early Colonial Pacific: Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-107-01510-4 vxiii + 333 pp.

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Viveka Velupillai | Justus Liebig University Giessen

Published online: 16 June 2016

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