Language Description, History and Development -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Terry Crowley 1953-2005 -- Introduction -- "Try look that yellow book": The legacy of Terry Crowley's work in Cape York Peninsula -- 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 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 inOceanic 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 -- II. Language history and historical linguistics -- 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 -- III. Language developmentandlinguistic applications -- 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 languagedeath: 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 -- References -- Index -- The series Creole Language Library.