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Missionary-induced language change, on the trail of the conditional in Nafsan, central Vanuatu

Posted on 30 May 2017 by nickthieberger — 4 Comments

Nick Thieberger University of Melbourne Can a missionary make a change to a language so that an existing construction is replaced by one based on English? This is what appears to have happened in Nafsan, Efate, in Vanuatu, which has independently…

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