LING 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Preposition And Postposition, Vowel Shift, Austrian Hockey League
1 May 2017
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Curry - from indigenous language family of south india (dravidian) Looked at sound of words spelled like garage the second g makes a sound that doesn"t show up very often. Tupela man hio i stap antap long mun i wok long graun bilong mun i go insait long wanpela bek plastik. Difference between creole and pidgin, is someone"s first language. [clip from abbott and costello, who"s on first ] Slides showing 3 different translations of the first book of the bible genesis (from the story of cain and abel) Tupela man - two men hio - here i - subject marker (3rd person singular) long - any preposition i wok - he walks graun - ground bilong - possessive morpheme. This language is tok pisin, which is a creole language. Adam-es and eu-an aforan waeron freolicu two frumbearn cenned, cain and abel. English has kept it"s spelling from 1000 years ago. This change is a vowel shift (same in english)
