Code Switching

[Jean Kennedy]

Is there some way we can distinguish between code-switch usages which
communicate usefully to their audience (e.g. sori tumas, komputa i daun)
and those which do not (yumi mas kirapim ekanomik infrasitruksa)?  Both
heard in Manus, pre-1980.
Many Tolai tree names were standard usage among forestry graduates 10 years
ago, and also commonplace in tok pisin bilong ailands. 




Dr Jean Kennedy
Visiting Fellow
Archaeology and Natural History
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200

jkennedy at coombs.anu.edu.au
telephone 02 6249 5974