Language description, history and development : linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley / e...
Language description, history and development : linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley / e...
Language description, history and development : linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley / edited by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch, Diana Eades.
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2007.
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410/16
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xiv, 512 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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Pt.I Language description and linguistic typology -- 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 o...
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 o...
24. The reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *na in Unua -- 25. Proto who utilised turmeric, and how? -- 26. On the lexicon of Early Melanesian Pidgin -- Pt.III Language development and linguistic applications -- 27. Structure, style and content in dictionary entries for an Oceanic language -- 28. The Fijian...
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, c2007.
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c2007.
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Language description, history and development : linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley / edited by Jeff Siegel, John Lynch, Diana Eades.
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Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 30.
Creole language library, 0920-9026 ; v. 30.
Dedicated to the memory of Terry Crowley who died in 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-502) and index.
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410/16
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9027252521 (hb : alk. paper)
9789027252524 (hb : alk. paper)
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410
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991023299469702626
