ScholarSpace Collection: Volume 01 Issue 2 : Language Documentation & Conservation http://hdl.handle.net/10125/859 The Collection's search engine Search the Channel search http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/simple-search Bislama into Kwamera: Code-mixing and Language Change on Tanna (Vanuatu) http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1773 Title: Bislama into Kwamera: Code-mixing and Language Change on Tanna (Vanuatu)<br/><br/>Author(s): Lindstrom, Lamont<br/><br/>Abstract: People throughout Vanuatu frequently mix Bislama (that country’s national Pidgin) into their vernaculars. Extensive code-mixing is an obvious indicator, and sometime cause, of language change or even language replacement. This paper discusses several sorts of Bislama code-mixing on Tanna among speakers of that island’s Kwamera language. It assesses levels and kinds of Bislama use in four village debates, tape-recorded in 1982 and 1983. Among other uses, Kwamera speakers mix Bislama when interjecting, reiterating, reporting speech, neutralizing marked vernacular terms, and qualifying what they say. The paper concludes with some remarks on the phonological, morphological/syntactic, and lexical/semantic consequences of recurrent language mixing—on how Islanders’ insertions of Bislama into their oratorical and everyday talk may or may not be effecting linguistic change in Kwamera. Bislama, so far at least, has enriched more than it has impoverished Tanna’s linguistic ecology. Speakers’ frequent Bislama mixes have not yet seriously undermined their vernacular. Submission Guidelines, 1(2) http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1740 Title: Submission Guidelines, 1(2)<br/><br/>Author(s): Language Documentation & Conservation<br/><br/>Description: Submission Guidelines for the December 2007 issue (Volume 1, Number 2) of Language Documentation & Conservation. Editorial Board, 1(2) http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1739 Title: Editorial Board, 1(2)<br/><br/>Author(s): Language Documentation & Conservation<br/><br/>Description: Editorial Board for the December 2007 issue (Volume 1, Number 2) of Language Documentation & Conservation. Table of Contents, 1(2) http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1738 Title: Table of Contents, 1(2)<br/><br/>Author(s): Language Documentation & Conservation<br/><br/>Description: Table of Contents for the December 2007 issue (Volume 1, Number 2) of Language Documentation & Conservation. Review of When Languages Die http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1731 Title: Review of When Languages Die<br/><br/>Author(s): Rice, Keren Review of A Hausa-English Dictionary http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1726 Title: Review of A Hausa-English Dictionary<br/><br/>Author(s): Leben, William R. Review of Fontographer http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1723 Title: Review of Fontographer<br/><br/>Author(s): Kalish, Mia Review of LexiquePro http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1720 Title: Review of LexiquePro<br/><br/>Author(s): Guérin, Valérie; Lacrampe, Sébastien Review of Audiamus 2.3 http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1719 Title: Review of Audiamus 2.3<br/><br/>Author(s): Brotchie, Amanda Review of EUDICO Linguistic Annotator (ELAN) http://hdl.handle.net/10125/1718 Title: Review of EUDICO Linguistic Annotator (ELAN)<br/><br/>Author(s): Berez, Andrea L.