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Tok Pisin & Hawai’i Creole English:
EnglishWantoks or Siblings?
c
Craig Alan VolkerProfessor of Linguistic Research
Divine Word University, Madang, PNgcvolker AT dwu.ac.pg
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Watpo sem sem?
Same Oceanic origin?
Diffusion?
Chance & universals?
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Oceanic Origins
pau / pinis: Hanahana pau, orait, yufera slip.Wok pinis, orait, yupela slip.
pronounsSingular Dual Trial Plural mi mitufera mitrifera miferayu yutufera yutrifera yufera him (data not certain)
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Oceanic, in modern HCE, not in data
stap / stei durative: Ai laik stei tok stori.
bin / wen past: Ai wen bai da kain.
locative prepositions: andanit a da chri
transitive marker (“im”) : Yu no laik yusim hama?
answering negative questions
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Typical Oceanic not in data
inclusive / exclusive “we”
predicate marker (“i”)
no general preposition “long”
productive reduplication
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Oceanic but also Japanese
serial verbs of direction:Yufera kachi diswankam! / Gachi diswan go!
no interrogative fronting:Yu laiki wat?
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Common with Chinese Pidgin English
bilong / birong: Him haus birong mi
-fela / -fera adjectives: Man him bigfera. Tufera gud wahine.
-fela / -fera determiners: wanfera man / *wanfera tebol
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Common English-derived wordsconjunctions: olsem, sapos, taim, orait
Olsem hanahana pau...
“ol” plural
adverbs of intensity: lelebet, tomachiRerebet mani, tomachi pirikia.
atingAting mi Japan go.
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Word orderusually SVO
so prepositions & det-adj-n:Wanfera gud wahine
sometimes SOV (like Japanese): Taim mi Japan go.
sometimes postpositions (like Japanese):Mi stap ten klok made.
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Wantoks or siblings?
some words and morphemes have common ancestors
Structure in data not Oceanic
Some later diffusion into Hawai’i Creole English of Oceanic structures