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A Note on the Grammatical Functions and Patterns of Use of the Function Word Ol in Written Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin)

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Kornacki P.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

2015

issue 24/2

49-61

The aim of this paper is to examine the chief aspects of the synchronic use of the multifunctional word ol (gloss: 3PL/PL) in its characteristic functions of a third-person plural pronoun and a plural marker in Tok Pisin1, recorded in a small group of texts which represent the contemporary written register of Tok Pisin. It is hoped that the undertaken examination of a number of characteristic contexts modified by this particle will shed some light on a prominent aspect of multifunctionality within the nominal morphology of Tok Pisin.

A Look at Tok Pisin save: A Lexical Verb and an Aspectual Marker in a Cultural Context

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Kornacki P.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

2019

issue 28/2

79-93

This paper studies a common Tok Pisin lexical verb and auxiliary save ‘know’; ‘habitual’, respectively, and its prominent uses in examples of social interaction described in one section of the Wantok magazine and a Papua New Guinean writer’s short narrative. The linguistic material examined here seems to point to the semantic category of ‘social rela- tionship nouns’ (SRNs) as relevant to the contextually and culturally adequate understand- ing of the examined examples of Tok Pisin usage.

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A Note on the Grammatical Functions and Patterns of Use of the Function Word Ol in Written Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin)

A Look at Tok Pisin save: A Lexical Verb and an Aspectual Marker in a Cultural Context