Publications

Publication details [#25507]

Master, Peter. 1993. On-line nominal compound formation in an experimental pidgin. Journal of Pragmatics 20 (4) : 359–375.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

artificial language | discourse, processing of | experimentation | nominal compound | pidgin

Language as a subject

Farsi | German

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This on-line study of a pair of experimental pidgins reveals how nominal compounding in natural languages often resulted from the discourse pressure to economize.