Northern Territory Pidgins and the Origin of Kriol

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