abusim toktok

EvaLindström evali at ling.su.se
Fri Nov 30 22:50:12 EST 2001


I heard 'abusim toktok' about people mixing English into
their Tok Pisin, or Tok Pisin into their Kuot, in New Ireland
in 1997-99. It seems to refer to sprinkling your speech with
vocabulary from another language rather than e.g. code
switching.

Eva




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Eva Lindström
Linguistics
Stockholm University
http://www.ling.su.se/staff/evali


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