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Language description, history and development : linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley /
This volume in memory of Terry Crowley covers a wide range of languages: Australian, Oceanic, Pidgins and Creoles, and varieties of English. Part I, Linguistic Description and Typology, includes chapters on topics such as complex predicates and verb serialization, noun incorporation, possessive clas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2007.
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| Colección: | Creole language library ;
v. 30. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Jeff Siegel, John Lynch and Diana Eades
- "Try look that yellow book": the legacy of Terry Crowley's work in Cape York Peninsula / Helen Harper
- Describing languages and ethnographic fieldwork / William R. Thurston
- A desiderative complement construction in Warrwa / William B. McGregor
- Noun incorporation in Rembarrnga discourse / Graham McKay
- A revised view of the verbal suffixes of Yugambeh-Bundjalung / Margaret C. Sharpe
- Close and remote objects in a language with a single transitive suffix / Anna Margetts
- Possessive classifier bila- in Raga reflects value in people / Hannah Vari-Bogiri
- On the subject of subjects in Maori / Ray Harlow
- Pointing at the lagoon: directional terms in Oceanic atoll-based languages / Bill Palmer
- Does Hawaiian have diphthongs: and how can you tell? / Kenneth L. Rehg
- Accent patterns for English loanwords in Samoan: a window on prosody / Albert J. Schütz
- Syntactic properties of the definitive accent in Tongan / Therese Mary Aitchison
- Tok Pisin ia-bracketing: neither substrate nor syntax / Joel Bradshaw
- On Papiamentu ku / Claire Lefebvre and Isabelle Therrien
- " ... And the blue bird /flju/ away": yod insertion in Fiji English / France Mugler
- Modal wars: some ascendant semi-modals in Australian English / Peter Collins
- Complex predication and the coverb construction / Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey
- Verb serialisation and incipient grammaticalisation in Abma / Cindy Schneider
- The demise of serial verbs in South Efate / Nicholas Thieberger
- Nganyaywana revisited: lessons from Terry Crowley's work on New England languages / Paul Black
- Divergent regularity in word-initial truncation in the Arandic languages / Harold Koch
- Two kinds of locative construction in Oceanic languages: a robust distinction / Malcolm Ross
- The prenasalised trills of Manus / Robert Blust
- Noun articles in Torres and Banks languages: conservation and innovation / Alexandre François
- The reflexes of proto-oceanic *na in Unua / Elizabeth Pearce
- Proto who utilised turmeric, and how? / Kitsuko Kikusawa and Lawrence A. Reid
- On the lexicon of Early Melanesian Pidgin / Ross Clark
- Structure, style and content in dictionary entries for an Oceanic language / D.S. Walsh
- The Fijian dictionary experience / Paul Geraghty
- Lexicography for your friends / Mark Donohue
- Language-in-education in New Zealand: policies and practices / Roger Barnard
- Language-in-education policy in the context of language death: conflicts in policy and practice in Colombia / Anthony J. Liddicoat and Timothy Jowan Curnow / The Crowley corrective: an alternative voice for language endangerment / Michael Walsh
- Language sizes in Melanesia / Robert Early
- Funeral liturgy as a strategy for language revival / Rob Amery and Dennis O'Brien.