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Publication details [#23205]
Thomason, Sarah Grey. 1983. Chinook Jargon in areal and historical context. Language 59 (4) : 820–870. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The paper argues that Chinook Jargon is a pidgin, rather than a jargon (a speech form without independent grammatical status), and offers evidence for the pre-European origin of Chinook Jargon.