Roger M. Keesing
List of John Benjamins publications in which Roger M. Keesing is involved.
1994 Radical cultural difference: Anthropology's myth? Language Contact and Language Conflict, Pütz, Martin (ed.), pp. 3–23 | Article
1992 Writing Kwaio Life Histories: Issues of Authorship and Politics The Afterlife of the Life History, pp. 39–47 | Article
Abstract This article discusses the two ends of the life-history process: the reasons for its undertaking and the research assumptions these engender, and the impact of the published account on readers. In doing so, I draw on my own experience in the research and writing of Nan: The Life of an… read more
1992 Linguistics and anthropology Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Pütz, Martin (ed.), pp. 593–610 | Article
1991 The Expansion of Melanesian Pidgin: Further Early Evidence from the Solomons Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 6:2, pp. 215–229 | Article
A substantial pidgin text recorded in the western Solomons in 1893 is analyzed and placed in historical context. Showing complex syntactic pat-terns, the text is strikingly similar to twentieth century Solomons Pijin. It corresponds closely to an earlier text from the same area and to… read more
1991 Substrates, calquing and grammaticalization in Melanesian pidgin Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume I. Theoretical and methodological issues, Traugott, Elizabeth Closs and Bernd Heine (eds.), pp. 315–360 | Article
1988 Solomons Pidgin Pronouns: A Further Look English World-Wide 9:2, pp. 271–292 | Article