In:Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley
Edited by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diana Eades
[Creole Language Library 30] 2007
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 14 March 2007
https://doi.org/10.1075/cll.30.toc
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Table of contents
List of contributors
Abbreviations
Acknowledgementsxv
Introduction
“Try look that yellow book”: The legacy of Terry Crowley’s work in Cape York Peninsula
Part I: Language description and linguistic typology13
1. Describing languages and ethnographic fieldwork
2. A desiderative complement construction in Warrwa.
3. Noun incorporation in Rembarrnga discourse.
4. A revised view of the verbal suffixes of Yugambeh-Bundjalung
5. Close and remote objects in a language with a single transitive suffix
6. Possessive classifier bila- in Raga reflects value in people
7. On the subject of subjects in Māori
8. Pointing at the lagoon: Directional terms in Oceanic atoll-based languages
9. Does Hawaiian have diphthongs? And how can you tell?
10. Accent patterns for English loanwords in Samoan: A window on prosody
11. Syntactic properties of the definitive accent in Tongan
12. Tok Pisin ia-bracketing: Neither substrate nor syntax
13. On Papiamentu ku
14. “… and the blue bird /flju/ away”: Yod insertion in Fiji English
15. Modal wars: Some ascendant semi-modals in Australian English
16. Complex predication and the coverb construction
17. Verb serialisation and incipient grammaticalisation in Abma
18. The demise of serial verbs in South Efate
Part II: Language history and historical linguistics253
19. Nganyaywana revisited: Lessons from Terry Crowley’s work on New England languages
20. Divergent regularity in word-initial truncation in the Arandic languages
21. Two kinds of locative construction in Oceanic languages: A robust distinction
22. The prenasalised trills of Manus
23. Noun articles in Torres and Banks languages: Conservation and innovation
24. The reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *na in Unua
25. Proto who utilised turmeric, and how?
26. On the lexicon of Early Melanesian Pidgin
Part III: Language development and linguistic applications369
27. Structure, style and content in dictionary entries for an Oceanic language
28. The Fijian dictionary experience
29. Lexicography for your friends
30. Language-in-education in New Zealand: Policies and practices
31. Language-in-education policy in the context of language death: Conflicts in policy and practice in Colombia
32. The Crowley corrective: An alternative voice for language endangerment
33. Language sizes in Melanesia
34. Funeral liturgy as a strategy for language revival
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