Chinook Jargon in Areal and Historical Context

This paper addresses two current controversies about the nature and origin of Chinook Jargon. First, evidence is presented to support the claim that CJ is a true pidgin-rather than a jargon, in Silverstein's sense (1972) of a speech form without independent grammatical status. When structural f...

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Published in:Language (Baltimore) 1983-12, Vol.59 (4), p.820-870
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