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English-derived contact languages in the Pacific in the 19th century (excluding Australia). Tryon, Darrell T., Peter Mühlhäusler, and Philip Baker.

Journal of Chinese Linguistics 19 (1): 1-40. Chinese Pidgin English: Its origin and linguistic features. In Susanne Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, and Magnus Huber (eds.), Survey of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Volume 1: English-based and Dutch-based Languages. Origins of a Preposition: Chinese Pidgin English long and its Implications for Pidgin Grammar. Journal of the American Oriental Society 64: 95 -113. Chinese Pidgin English grammar and texts. Chinese Englishes: A Sociolinguistic History. Journal of Asian-Pacific Communication 1: 87-115. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 2 (2): 163-207.

Historical developments in Chinese Pidgin English and the nature of the relationships between the various pidgin Englishes of the Pacific region. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 25 (1): 63 -94. The Corpus of Chinese Pidgin English, supported by a UGC funding (UGC/FDS11/H01/18), is a collection of data of Chinese Pidgin English in Chinese and English language sources.Īnsaldo, Umberto, Stephen Matthews, and Geoff Smith.
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The grammar of Chinese Pidgin English shows considerable influence from Cantonese in areas such as the use of the classifier piecee, serial verb constructions, topicalization, wh-in-situ questions, and the preposition long (Hall 1944 Baker 1987 Baker & Mühlhäusler 19 Bolton 2003 Ansaldo, Matthews & Smith 2010 Li 2011, Matthews & Li 2012).

CPE lacks inflectional morphology and is basically a SVO language. There are, however, a number of vocabulary items of different origins, for example savvy ‘know’ from Portuguese, units of measurement such as catty and candareen from Malay, chop ‘seal, trade mark’ from Hindi. The lexicon of CPE mainly consists of English vocabulary. Other, Pay, Bible search, /gp/searchieUTF8&c. 250 years of use, CPE remained a functionally restricted pidgin until its extinction around the 1960s. Links to websites containing the Bible in Chinese Pidgin English sorted by popularity. At the same time, Chinese Pidgin English began to spread to cities such as Amoy (Xiamen), Foochow (Fuzhou), Shanghai and Ningpo (Ningbo). As a result of the Opium Wars, more treaty ports along the China Coast were opened for foreign trade. The pidgin originated in Canton which was the only port opened for foreign trade in the eighteenth century. It served as a lingua franca for interethnic communication, especially among Chinese and Europeans. Chinese Pidgin English was a trade pidgin emerged around the 18th century (Tryon, Mühlhäusler & Baker 1996).
