Bislama is the variety of Melanesian Pidgin spoken in Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). In this learned study, Crowley traces the history and development of Bislama from the 1840s to the present. Drawing on written records and other historical sources, he examines the language's labor history, and discusses the evolution of its grammatical construction.
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"This is an extremely valuable addition to the literature on Melanesian Pidgin and on pidgin/creole studies generally. But it is more than that: Because of the attention paid to the effects on the language of interethnic contact and social and political developments in Vanuatu, it is also a valuable contribution to the social history of the Pacific."--Pacific Studies
"This is a remarkable piece of historical linguistics....Crowley presents a very cogent analysis of the early development of Bislama....This is a very interesting and wide-ranging book by a scholar with prolonged exposure to and a great command of various pidgins and vernaculars of the Western Pacific. The author skillfully brings together discussion and data that shed light on the complexity of the origins and development of Beach-la-mar."--Language
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