Northern Territory Pidgins and the Origin of Kriol

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Northern Territory pidgins and the origin of Kriol......Page 1 Contents......Page 3 PREFACE......Page 5 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 7 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION......Page 9 SECTION I: THEORETICAL ISSUES......Page 17 CHAPTER 2: MODELS OF PIDGIN GENESIS......Page 19 CHAPTER 3: CREOLES AND CREOLISATION......Page 54 SECTION II: THE PRE-EUROPEAN BACKGROUND AND THE 'MACASSAN' PIDGIN......Page 75 CHAPTER 4: ABORIGINAL SPEECH COMMUNITIES AND PRE-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE CONTACT IN COASTAL NORTH AUSTRALIA......Page 77 SECTION III: THE LINGUISTIC CONSEQUENCES OF EUROPEAN INVASION AND SETTLEMENT......Page 119 CHAPTER 5: EUROPEAN LANGUAGE CONTACT IN COASTAL NORTHERN TERRITORY AND THE RISE OF ENGLISH PIDGINS PRIOR TO 1869......Page 121 CHAPTER 6: LANGUAGE CONTACT AND THE EMERGENCE OF AN ENGLISH-BASED PIDGIN IN EARLY DARWIN AND THE MINING CAMPS......Page 165 CHAPTER 7: THE PASTORAL FRONTIER AND THE RISE OF THE PASTORAL INDUSTRY PIDGIN......Page 192 CHAPTER 8: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO CREOLISATION......Page 223 SECTION IV: ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION......Page 247 CHAPTER 9: PIDGINISATION IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 249 CHAPTER 10: THE LEXICON OF NORTHERN TERRITORY PIDGIN ENGLISH......Page 268 CHAPTER 11: THE CREOLISATION OF NORTHERN TERRITORY PIDGIN ENGLISH......Page 309 APPENDIXES......Page 328 APPENDIX A: PIDGIN ENGLISH EXAMPLES AS RECORDED IN THE LITERATURE......Page 335 APPENDIX B: PIDGIN ENGLISH IN TWO COURT CASES......Page 353 APPENDIX C: PIDGIN ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONS......Page 358 APPENDIX D: 'JOURNALISTIC' PIDGIN352......Page 360 APPENDIX E: EXTRACTS FROM BORROLOOLA POLICE RECORDS......Page 362 NOTES......Page 367 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 382 INDEX......Page 416 MAP 1: Australia, showing the region in which Kriol is spoken......Page 12 MAP 2: Northern portion of Tindale's map of tribal boundaries (simplified and redrawn)......Page 80 MAP 3: Milliken's map of distribution of speakers of Aboriginal languages (Northern portion)......Page 82 MAP 4: The South-east Asian Archipelago......Page 87 MAP 5: The Top End of the Northern Territory......Page 123 MAP 6: Northern Territory British Settlements and Leichhardt's Journey......Page 127 MAP 7: Earliest pastoral properties in the Roper River region......Page 210 MAP 8: Traditional 'countries' of the Roper River region and the paths of European invasion......Page 239