Peter Mühlhäusler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Peter Mühlhäusler plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 0920-9026
Title
Tok Pisin Texts: From the beginning to the present
Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine
[Varieties of English Around the World, T9] 2003. x, 284 pp.
Subjects Creole studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
2015 ‘Sometime is lies’: Narrative and identity in two mixed-origin island languages Narrative and Identity Construction in the Pacific Islands, Gounder, Farzana (ed.), pp. 101–116 | Article
We compare Pitkern-Norf’k and Palmerston narratives to each other and to narrative construction in other more well-known English dialects. This will demonstrate that narratives of these two beach community languages differ from the latter in many parallel ways. We discuss the narrative types… read more
2015 State versus community approaches to language revival: The case of Wirangu at the Scotdesco community (South Australia) Education in Languages of Lesser Power: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Volker, Craig Alan and Fred E. Anderson (eds.), pp. 185–203 | Article
This paper reports on local community-based approaches to the revival of the Wirangu language on the Far West Coast of South Australia that have occurred during the past five years. It examines the development of strategies and practices for the revival of the language outside of the realm of state… read more
2015 Language and the world: A response to Mufwene Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 30:1, pp. 159–166 | Article
2015 From despised jargon to language of education: Recent developments in the teaching of Norf'k (Norfolk Island, South Pacific) Education in Languages of Lesser Power: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Volker, Craig Alan and Fred E. Anderson (eds.), pp. 223–241 | Article
This paper describes the changing views and practices of the school vis-à-vis the Norf’k language, the mixed Tahitian, English, St Kitts Creole language spoken by the descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who brought the language from Pitcairn to Norfolk Island in 1856. For more than a century,… read more
2014 The pragmatics of first person non-singular pronouns in Norf’k Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts, Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula (ed.), pp. 105–132 | Article
The Norf’k language of the descendants of the Mutiny of the Bounty has developed a complex inventory of pronouns and similarly complex rules for their use. The large size of the pronoun paradigm reflects both the cumulative nature of Norf’k grammar where constructions from Tahitian, English and St.… read more
2012 Prologue Endangered Metaphors, Idström, Anna and Elisabeth Piirainen (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Miscellaneous
2011 Language form and language substance: From a formal to an ecological approach to pidgins and creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 26:2, pp. 341–362 | Article
This paper argues that creolistics has tended to overemphasize the formal and general properties of Creole languages to the neglect of their substantive and singular lexical properties. Rather than assuming that Creoles can express anything their speakers need or want to say as soon as they come… read more
2008 Multifunctionality in Pitkern-Norf’k and Tok Pisin Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 23:1, pp. 75–113 | Article
This paper investigates claims as to the role of categorial multifunctionality in the Pitkern-Norf’k (PN) language. It concludes that the grammar of this construction is far less productive than that of either English or Tahitian (the principal substratum language). Essentially, multifunctionality… read more
2007 The Pitkern-Norf’k language and education English World-Wide 28:3, pp. 215–247 | Article
This paper examines the role that educational policies and practices have played in weakening the Norf’k language, a contact language that developed among British sailors and their Tahitian entourage on Pitcairn Island in the late 18th century. It is argued that the education system was only one… read more
2005 Simple English in the South Seas Evangelical Mission: Social context and linguistic attributes Language Problems and Language Planning 29:1, pp. 1–30 | Article
The general point of this paper is to highlight the important role of Christian missions in the development of language planning. We document this with a case study: the attempt of the South Seas Evangelical Mission to devise a simplified English, intermediate between Pidgin English and full… read more
2003 Pacific Pidgins and Creoles Germanic Standardizations: Past to Present, Deumert, Ana and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 355–381 | Article
2003 Sociohistorical and grammatical aspects of Tok Pisin Tok Pisin Texts: From the beginning to the present, Mühlhäusler, Peter, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine, pp. 1–34 | Miscellaneous
2002 Pidgin English and the Melanesian Mission Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 17:2, pp. 237–263 | Article
2002 Changing names for a changing landscape: The case of Norfolk Island English World-Wide 23:1, pp. 59–91 | Article
Desert islands such as Norfolk in the south-west Pacific offer important insights into the genesis and development of languages. The paper addresses the particular issue of the origin of place names. It shows the tension between the different groups that settled on the island since 1788 and pays… read more
2000 Humboldt, Whorf and the roots of ecolinguistics Explorations in Linguistic Relativity, Pütz, Martin and Marjolijn H. Verspoor (eds.), pp. 89–100 | Article
2000 The development of the life form lexicon in Tok Pisin Degrees of Restructuring in Creole Languages, Neumann-Holzschuh, Ingrid and Edgar W. Schneider (eds.), pp. 337–360 | Article
1999 Exploring the Missionary Position Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:2, pp. 339–346 | Miscellaneous
1999 More on Non-Canonical Creoles Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 14:1, pp. 121–130 | Miscellaneous
1998 How creoloid can you get? Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13:2, pp. 355–371 | Miscellaneous
1998 Layer Upon Layer of Languages Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13:1, pp. 151–158 | Miscellaneous
1997 Grammatical properties of Milhne Bay English and their sources Englishes around the World: Studies in honour of Manfred Görlach, Schneider, Edgar W. (ed.), pp. 219–228 | Article
1997 Language ecology — contact without conflict Language Choices: Conditions, constraints, and consequences, Pütz, Martin (ed.), pp. 3–16 | Article
1995 Attitudes to Literacy in the Pidgins and Creoles of the Pacific Area English World-Wide 16:2, pp. 251–271 | Article
1994 Language teaching = Linguistic imperialism? Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 17:2, pp. 121–130 | Article
Linguistic imperialism is the expansion of a small number of privileged languages at the cost of a large number of others. The language teaching profession is a potential instrument of linguistic imperialism and needs to address the question of the ecological impact of language teaching and to… read more
1990 Tok Pisin: Model or special case Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia, Verhaar, S.J., John W.M. (ed.), pp. 171–186 | Article
1990 On the origins of the predicate marker in Tok Pisin Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia, Verhaar, S.J., John W.M. (ed.), pp. 235–250 | Article
1989 Review of Keesing (1988): Melanesian Pidgin and the Oceanic substrate Studies in Language 13:2, pp. 459–475 | Review
1988 R.B. Le Page and A. Tabouret-Keller. Acts of identity Studies in Language 12:1, pp. 240–242 | Squib
1987 Tracing Predicate Markers in Pacific Pidgin English English World-Wide 8:1, pp. 97–121 | Article
1987 Marlis Hellinger. 1985. Englisch-orientierte Pidgin- und Kreolsprachen Studies in Language 11:2, pp. 513–516 | Miscellaneous
1986 Bonnet Blanc and Blanc Bonnet: Adjective-Noun Order, Substratum and Language Universals Substrata versus Universals in Creole Genesis: Papers from the Amsterdam Creole Workshop, April 1985, Muysken, Pieter and Norval Smith (eds.), pp. 41–56 | Article
1985 Towards an explanatory theory of metaphor The Ubiquity of Metaphor: Metaphor in language and thought, Paprotté, Wolf and René Dirven † (eds.), pp. 57–84 | Article
1983 Queensland Kanaka English English World-Wide 4:2, pp. 231–263 | Article
1982 Review of Day (1980): Issues in English Creoles English World-Wide 3:1, pp. 107–112 | Review
1980 Review of Hancock (1979): Readings in Creole Studies English World-Wide 1:1, pp. 149–151 | Review