Publications

Publication details [#6950]

Mühlhäusler, Peter. 1977. Bemerkungen zum 'Pidgin Deutsch' von Neuguinea. In Molony, Carol H., Helmut Zobl and Wilfried Stölting, eds. Deutsch im Kontakt mit anderen Sprachen/German in contact with other languages. Scriptor. pp. 58–70.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

German

Keywords

jargon | language contact | pidgin

Language as a subject

German, Pidgin

Annotation

On varieties of simplified German recorded on Ali Island (former German New Guinea) which are shown to be individual rather than social solutions to the problem of cross-linguistic communication, i.e. jargons rather than pidgins.