Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic Indulgence in Memory of Terry CrowleyJeff Siegel, John Dominic Lynch, Diana Eades 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 classifiers, diphthongs, accent patterns, modals in Australian English and directional terms in atoll-based languages. Part II, Historical Linguistics and Linguistic History, ranges from the reconstruction of Australian languages, to reflexes of Proto-Oceanic, to the lexicon of early Melanesian Pidgin. Part III, Language Development and Linguistic Applications, comprises studies of lexicography, language in education, and language endangerment and language revival, spanning the Pacific from South Australia and New Zealand to Melanesia and on to Colombia. The volume will whet the appetite of anyone interested in the latest linguistic research in this richly multilingual part of the globe. |
Contents
The legacy of Terry Crowleys work | 9 |
A desiderative complement construction in Warrwa | 27 |
Noun incorporation in Rembarrnga discourse | 41 |
Close and remote objects in a language with a single transitive suffix | 69 |
On the subject of subjects in Māori | 89 |
Directional terms in Oceanic atollbased | 101 |
Does Hawaiian have diphthongs? And how can you tell? | 119 |
A window | 133 |
Divergent regularity in wordinitial truncation in the Arandic | 267 |
The prenasalised trills of Manus | 297 |
Conservation | 313 |
The reflexes of ProtoOceanic na in Unua | 327 |
Proto who utilised turmeric and how? | 341 |
On the lexicon of Early Melanesian Pidgin | 355 |
Language development and linguistic applications | 369 |
The Fijian dictionary experience | 383 |
Syntactic properties of the definitive accent in Tongan | 147 |
On Papiamentu ku | 169 |
Some ascendant semimodals in Australian English | 197 |
Verb serialisation and incipient grammaticalisation in Abma | 221 |
The demise of serial verbs in South Efate | 237 |
Language history and historical linguistics | 253 |
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accent accretion adverb Anêm Arandic Australian Austronesian bilingual Bislama Churchward cognates complement compound consonant context coverb coverb construction creole Crowley's cultural Curcuma definition desiderative dialect dictionary diphthongs discussion distinction ethnoeducation example Fiji Hindi Fijian function Geytenbeeks grammatical grammaticalised guages Hawaiian headword Indo-Fijians initial intransitive island Jaminjung Kaurna Kaurna language Kaytetye kúnij lagoon lexical entry lexical items light verb linguistic locative Lynch Māori marker marking Marshallese meaning Melanesia morpheme Mwotlap Nganyaywana Note noun incorporation noun phrase occur Oceanic languages Pacific Papiamentu Papua phoneme phonological Pidgin predicate prenasalised trills PREP preposition pronoun Raga reconstructed refer reflexes relative clauses Rembarrnga Samoan Sankoff schools semantic serial verbs serialisation South Efate speakers speech suffix SVCs syllable syntactic Table teachers tense Terry Crowley tion Tok Pisin transitive turmeric types Unua Vanuatu vowel vwavwa Warrwa words yod insertion