Language contact in the early colonial Pacific. Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English. By Emanuel J. Drechsel

Bakker, Peter

doi:10.1075/jpcl.00045.bak

Review published In: Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Vol. 34:2 (2019) ► pp.395–399

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Language contact in the early colonial Pacific. Maritime Polynesian Pidgin before Pidgin English. By Emanuel J. Drechsel

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Peter Bakker | Aarhus University

Published online: 25 November 2019

https://doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.00045.bak

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