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This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the eastern Pacific by arguing that Maritime Polynesian Pidgin preceded the introduction of Pidgin English by as much as a century. Emanuel J. Drechsel not only opens up new methodological avenues for histo
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- Author
- Emanuel J. Drechsel
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781107699618
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Linguistics, Historical Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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