Broken
Subtitle: an introduction to the Creole language of Torres Strait
By: Anna Shnukal.
Series: Pacific linguistics.; no. 107
Publisher: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Canberra, A.C.T
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Creole dialects, English -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands (Qld.); Creole dialects, English -- Australia -- Torres Strait Islands (Qld.) -- Dictionaries -- English.; Torres Strait Islanders -- Languages.; Torres Strait Islanders -- Languages -- Dictionaries -- English.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-94).
Includes dictionary of Broken to English.
Table of contents: title: Dedication
pagenum: iii; title: Preface
pagenum: vii; title: Map of Torres Strait showing inhabited islands
pagenum: xiii; label: I
title: Introduction to Broken
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: General
pagenum: 3; label: 1.1
title: Pidgins and creoles
pagenum: 4; label: 1.2
title: History of Broken
pagenum: 4; label: 1.3
title: Changing attitudes
pagenum: 7; label: 2
title: The Sounds
pagenum: 10; label: 2.1
title: Variation and standardisation
pagenum: 10; label: 2.2
title: Consonants, vowels and diphthongs
pagenum: 11; label: 2.3
title: Syllables
pagenum: 12; label: 2.4
title: Stress
pagenum: 13; label: 2.5
title: Borrowed vocabulary
pagenum: 13; label: 2.6
title: Spelling
pagenum: 16; label: 3
title: The grammar
pagenum: 19; label: 3.1
title: Morphology
pagenum: 19; label: 3.2
title: Nouns, noun phrases and pronouns
pagenum: 23; label: 3.3
title: Verbs and verb phrases
pagenum: 37; label: 3.4
title: Adjectives and adjective phrases
pagenum: 52; label: 3.5
title: Adverbs and adverb phrases
pagenum: 54; label: 3.6
title: Prepositions and preposition phrases
pagenum: 55; label: 3.7
title: Simplex sentences
pagenum: 62; label: 3.8
title: Question sentences
pagenum: 64; label: 3.9
title: Directive sentences
pagenum: 70; label: 3.10
title: Negative sentences
pagenum: 72; label: 3.11
title: Complex sentences
pagenum: 76; label: 3.12
title: Location
pagenum: 82; label: 3.13
title: Direction
pagenum: 83; label: 3.14
title: Interjections
pagenum: 83; label: 3.15
title: Discourse
pagenum: 86; label: 4
title: The vocabulary
pagenum: 88; label: 4.1
title: Borrowed words
pagenum: 88; label: 4.2
title: New formations
pagenum: 90; label: 4.3
title: Name taboo
pagenum: 91; label: 5
title: Bibliography
pagenum: 92; label: II
title: Dictionary of Broken English
pagenum: 95; label: 6
title: General
pagenum: 97; label: 6.1
title: Aims of the dictionary
pagenum: 97; label: 6.2
title: Problems and solutuions
pagenum: 97; label: 6.3
title: Conventions
pagenum: 98; label: 6.4
title: Abbreviations
pagenum: 101; label: 6.5
title: Examples
pagenum: 102; label: 6.6
title: Notes on the practical word groups
pagenum: 102; label: 6.7
title: Notes on the appedices
pagenum: 102; label: 7
title: The dictionary
pagenum: 103; label: 8
title: Practical word groups
pagenum: 231; label: 9
title: Appendices
pagenum: 241; label: III
title: English finderlist
pagenum: 257; label: 10
title: General
pagenum: 259; label: 10.1
title: Scope of the finderlist
pagenum: 259; label: 10.2
title: Conventions
pagenum: 259; label: 11
title: Finderlist
pagenum: 263; label: IV
title: Texts in Broken
pagenum: 321; label: 12
title: General
pagenum: 323; label: 12.1
title: Manki ene totol
pagenum: 323; label: 12.2
title: Da ol man
pagenum: 323; label: 12.3
title: Gedor
pagenum: 325; label: 12.4
title: Mipla go pising
pagenum: 325; label: 12.5
title: Dadi i labap
pagenum: 326; label: 12.6
title: Mark Anthony's speech from Julius Caesar
pagenum: 327