Language Contact in Hawaii & the Pacific, 1778-1930

摘要本项目旨在确定夏威夷境内接触语言（特别是夏威夷语）的分布和性质，以及夏威夷语作为一种接触语言在整个太平洋盆地的分布。夏威夷大学汉密尔顿图书馆的夏威夷和太平洋特别馆藏包含了大量的材料，包括出版的和未出版的，包括自19世纪中叶以来在夏威夷出版的许多期刊和报纸的大多数缩微副本，也有几种语言：这个无与伦比的数据库几乎没有被研究人员接触过。该项目将对这些材料进行检索和（如有必要）翻译，目的是编制一个有注释的参考书目，其中包括本文献中所有关于语言接触的参考文献和所有在接触情况下使用的话语引用。我们将对引文进行语言学分析，以确定交流模式在多大程度上代表不稳定的行话，以及是否有可以被描述为稳定的混杂语。到目前为止取样的材料表明，夏威夷语（也许还有其他土著接触语言）在语言接触中的作用的激进版本将从这项研究中得出，挑战公认的观点，即英语在夏威夷接触中起主要作用，在太平洋接触中几乎独占作用。对夏威夷克里奥尔英语产生的输入的性质也将有价值的启示。

9406763 BICKERTON ABSTRACT The project seeks to determine the distribution and nature of contact languages (in particular Hawaiian) within Hawaii and the distribution of Hawaiian as a contact language throughout the Pacific basin. The Hawaiian and Pacific Special Collections of Hamilton Library in the University of Hawaii contain a vast collection of materials, both published and unpublished, including microfilmed copies of most of the many journals and newspapers, also in several languages, published in Hawaii since the mid-nineteenth century: this unrivalled database has been barely touched by researchers. The project will search and (where necessary) translate these materials with the goal of compiling an annotated bibliography of all references to language contact in this literature and all citations of utterances used in contact situations. The citations will be analyzed linguistically to determine to what extent modes of communication represent unstable jargon(s) and whether any could be described as stable pidgins. Materials so far sampled indicate that a radical version of the role of Hawaiian (and perhaps other indigenous contact languages) in language contact will result from this research, challenging received opinion which gives English the major role in Hawaii contacts and an almost exclusive role in Pacific contacts. Valuable light will also be cast on the nature of the input that gave rise to Hawaiian Creole English.