Download or read book Language Contact, Pidgins and the Emergence of Kriol in the Northern Territory written by John W. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theories of origin of pidgins and creoles; Northern Territory history in linguistic perpectives; contact with Macassans; relations with British settlements at Fort Dundas, Raffles Bay, Port Essington, Escape Cliffs, Goyders Survey Camp, Larakia and Woolna people; Overland Telegraph, mining camps; conflict with spread of pastoral industry; massacres in l870s and l880s; resistance by Aboriginal guerillas; Aboriginal settlement on pastoral properties; migrations to Roper Bar, Borroloola and Katherine; attempt to exterminate Aborigines at Roper River; languages at Roper River Mangayari, Ngalakan, Ngandi, Rembarrnga, Ritharngu, Nunggubuyu, Wandarang, Alawa, Mara Anglican Roper River Mission established l908; reasons for development of Northern Territory Pidgin English; baby-talk and monogenetic models of pidgin-isation; lexical comparison with Pacific and Sydney pidgins; creolization in Northern Territory.