Broken: An Introduction to the Creole Language of Torres Strait

Broken: An Introduction to the Creole Language of Torres Strait......Page 1
Dedication......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Map of Torres Strait showing inhabited islands......Page 13
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO BROKEN......Page 15
1. GENERAL......Page 17
1.2 History of Broken......Page 18
1.3 Changing attitudes......Page 21
2.1 Variation and standardisation......Page 24
2.2 Consonants, vowels and diphthongs......Page 25
2.3 Syllables......Page 26
2.5 Borrowed vocabulary......Page 27
2.6 Spelling......Page 30
3.1 Morphology......Page 33
3.2 Nouns, noun phrases and pronouns......Page 37
3.3 Verbs and verb phrases......Page 51
3.4 Adjectives and adjective phrases......Page 66
3.5 Adverbs and adverb phrases......Page 68
3.6 Prepositions and preposition phrases......Page 69
3.7 Simplex sentences......Page 76
3.8 Question sentences......Page 78
3.9 Directive sentences......Page 84
3.10 Negative sentences......Page 86
3.11 Complex sentences......Page 90
3.12 Location......Page 96
3.14 Interjections......Page 97
3.15 Discourse......Page 100
4.1 Borrowed words......Page 102
4.2 New formations......Page 104
4.3 Name taboo......Page 105
5. BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 106
PART II: DICTIONARY OF BROKEN TO ENGLISH......Page 109
6.2 Problems and solutions......Page 111
6.3 Conventions......Page 112
6.4 Abbreviations......Page 115
6.7 Notes on the appendices......Page 116
7. THE DICTIONARY......Page 117
8. PRACTICAL WORD GROUPS: church; clothing; food and cooking; medicine and nursing; school; sea and boats......Page 245
9. APPENDICES: animals; birds; body parts; colours; days of the week; fish; illnesses; insects; islands; kin terms; months of the year; numerals; plants; shells......Page 255
PART III: ENGLISH FINDERLIST......Page 271
10.2 Conventions......Page 273
11. FINDERLIST......Page 277
PART IV: TEXTS IN BROKEN......Page 335
12.2 Da ol man......Page 337
12.4 Mipla go pising......Page 339
12.5 Dadi i labap......Page 340
12.6 Mark Antony's speech from Julius Caesar......Page 341