Lois Carrington 1928-2008

Lois Carrington, who died in Canberra on April 2, aged 79, was a well-known figure in Pacific and Australian linguistics, much respected for her contributions in bibliographical and publishing work . She had close ties with the Indonesian community in Australia and for many years she and her husband edited the Australia-Indonesia Association Newsletter. Her gifts for friendship and communication, and for doing a dozen things at once very competently, led her to maintain a wide network of contacts in Australia and around the world.
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A grammar of the Pendau language of central sulawesi, Indonesia
Phil Quick
PL 590
This book is a grammar of Pendau, an Austronesian language spoken by around four thousand people in north-central Sulawesi , Indonesia . Pendau belongs to the Tomini-Tolitoli subgroup, and this book is the first comprehensive decription of any of these languages....
2008 ISBN 9780858835818
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Aspects of Lisu phonology and grammar: a language of Southeast Asia
Yu, Defen
PL 588
This book presents a comparative analysis of aspects of the phonology and grammar of Lisu, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the border areas of China , Myanmar , Thailand and India ....
ISBN 9780858835818
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A Grammar of Maybrat: A language of the Bird's Head Peninsula,
Papua Province , Indonesia

Dol, Philomena
PL 586
Maybrat is a Papuan language which is spoken in the central area of the Bird's Head Peninsula , Papua Province , Indonesia . Despite the fact that it is one of the larger local languages in Papua Province in terms of numbers of speakers, a comprehensive grammar on this language has hitherto not been published. ....
2007 ISBN 7980858835733
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A descriptive grammar of the Bukawa language of the Morobe Province
of Papua New Guinea
W. Eckermann
PL 585
The Bukawa language is an Austronesian language which is spoken by coastal inhabitants of the Huon Peninsula in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. The Bukawa villages are all situated on the coastal plain of the Huon Peninsula....
2007 ISBN 9780858835740
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The grammar of Yalarnnga: A language of western Queensland
Breen, Gavan and Barry J. Blake
PL 584
Yalarnnga is a language from Dajarra and country to its east, in far western Queensland . This grammar presents all that could be learnt by the authors from their work with the last three aged speakers, two of whom spoke it only as a second language. ....
ISBN 9780858835672
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Semantic, pragmatic and discourse perspectives of preposition use:
a study of Indonesian locatives
Dwi Noverini Djenar
PL 583
This book is an in-depth study of three locative prepositions which are often interchangeable in Indonesian, namely, di , pada and dalam —roughly corresponding to the English ‘on, in, at'. Discussing a range of quite subtle meanings and uses of these prepositions in different types of discourse...
2007 ISBN 9780858835665
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Speaking Kunjen: An ethnography of Oykangand kinship and communication
Bruce A. Sommer
PL 582
This book examines the interface between language and kinship in the Australian Aboriginal language Kunjen which is spoken in the Cape York region of northern Queensland . ...
2006 ISBN 085883 557 6 xvii + 248 pp
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Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian
James Neil Sneddon
PL 581
This book aims to describe aspects of the Indonesian language as spoken by educated Jakartans in everyday interactions. This style of language is in many ways significantly different from the formal language of government and education, to the extent that it deserves separate consideration....
2006 ISBN 085883 571 1 xi + 286 pp
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A grammar of Pacoh: A Mon-Khmer language of the central highlands of Vietnam
Mark J. Alves
PL 580 (Shorter Grammar)
Pacoh is a member of the Katuic group of the Mon-Khmer language family. It is spoken by about 10,000 people in the central highlands of Vietnam....
2006 ISBN 0 85883568 1
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Tiles in a multilingual mosaic: Macedonian, Filipino and Somali in Melbourne
Michael Clyne and Sandra Kipp
PL 578
2006 ISBN 0 85883 569 X
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Nese: a diminishing speech variety of Northwest Malakula ( Vanuatu )
Terry Crowley (edited by John Lynch)
PL 577
2006 ISBN 058835665
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Naman: a vanishing language of Malakula (Vanuatu)
Terry Crowley (edited by John Lynch)
PL 576
2006 ISBN 058835657
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Tape: a declining language of Malakula (Vanuatu)
Terry Crowley (edited by John Lynch)
PL 575
2006 ISBN 058835673
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The Avava language of Central Malakula (Vanuatu)
Terry Crowley (edited by John Lynch)
PL 574
2006 ISBN 058835649
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A descriptive grammar of Merei (Vanuatu)
Ying Shing Anthony CHUNG
PL 573 (Shorter Grammars)
The Merei language is spoken by about four hundred people in the villages of Angoru, Navele, Tombet and Vusvogo in the interior of Espiritu Santo Island , Vanuatu....
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Papuan Pasts: Cultural, linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples
edited by Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson and Robin Hide
PL 572
This book is an inter-disciplinary exploration of the history of humans in New Guinea , the Bismarck Archipelago and the Solomon Islands , which make up the biogeographic and cultural region that is coming to be known as Near Oceania, with particular reference to the people who speak Papuan (non-Austronesian) languages. ...
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The many faces of Austronesian voice systems: Some new empirical studies
I Wayan Arka and Malcolm Ross, editors
PL 571
The Ninth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics and the Fifth International Conference on Oceanic Linguistics were both held ...
2005 ISBN 0 85883 556 8 v + 278 pp, Prices: Australia AUD$69.30 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD$63.00
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Studies in Burmese linguistics
Justin Watkins, editor
PL 570
Studies in Burmese Linguistics' is a unique collection of articles dedicated to the linguistics of Burmese, ...
2005 ISBN 0 85883 559 2 xxvi + 331 pp, Prices: Australia AUD$83.60 (incl. GST), Overseas AUD$76.00
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A grammar of Gayo: A language of Aceh, Sumatra
Domenyk Eades (PL 567)
Gayo is a regional language of Indonesia spoken by some 260,000 people in the central highlands of Aceh province, at the north-western tip of Sumatra. ...
2005 ISBN 0 85883 553 3 2005 xii + 350 pp.
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The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic, Vol 2, Second edition
Malcolm Ross, Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond
This is the second in a series of five volumes on the lexicon of Proto Oceanic, the ancestor of the Oceanic branch of the Austronesian language family.
ISBN 9781921313189 (Print version) $88.00 (GST inclusive) ISBN 9781921313196 (Online)

SEALS XVI: papers from the 16th meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2006
Edited by Paul Sidwell & Uri Tadmor
PL E-6
The sixteenth annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society was held on 20-21 September 2006 in Jakarta , Indonesia . The meeting was jointly sponsored by the Institute of Language and Culture Studies at Atma Jaya University , and the Jakarta Field Station of the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ( Leipzig , Germany ). The program included 36 papers, of which a dozen appear in this volume. Languages discussed are: Allang, Amis, Fataluku, Javanese, K'cho, Kavalan, West Coast Bajau, Malay, Paiwan, Thai, and Vietnamese; and sub-fields including grammaticalization, pragmatics, phonetics, sociolinguistics, and syntax.
2008 ISBN 9780858835863 (pdf)

SEALS XIV: Vol 1: Papers from the 14th meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2004)
edited by Wilaiwan Khanittanan, and Paul Sidwell
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The Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society was held in Bangkok , Thailand , May 19-21, 2004. The meeting was hosted by the Department of Linguistics (Faculty of Liberal Arts) of Thammasat University , with assistance from the Commission on Higher Education. The schedule included 105 presentations and seven plenary sessions, characterized under 21 sub-fields of linguistics.
In this fist volume of papers from the meeting there are 20 papers covering such diverse topics as syntax, phonology, language planning, text analysis, language teaching and historical linguistics. Languages discussed include Chamoru, Cham, Hlai, Iu-Mienh, Mandarin, Central Philippine, Malay, Thai, and Tai of Assam.
2008 ISBN 9780858835856 (pdf)

SEALS XIII: papers from the 13th meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2003)
Edited by Iwasaki Shoichi, Andrew Simpson, Karen Adams & Paul Sidwell
PL E-3
A few paperback copies will be available shortly.
The 13th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALSXIII) was held at the University of California , Los Angeles (UCLA), May 2-4, 2003. A total of 33 papers were read, of which 23 are presented here. These papers reflect studies in various linguistic sub-disciplines, and discuss SEAsian languages from 5 different families: Austronesian: Balinese, Indonesian, Malagasy, Malay, Pendau; Mienic; Mon-Khmer: Khmer, Pacoh; Sino-Tibetan: Anong, Bisu, Dolakha Newar, Lai, Pyen; Tai-Kadai: Thai, Proto-Be-Tai.
2007 ISBN 9780858835764

SEALS XII: papers from the 12th meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (2002)
edited by Ratree Wayland, John Hartmann and Paul Sidwell
PL E-4
The 12th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS XII) was held at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb , Illinois on May 15-17, 2002, with support from the Henry R. Luce Foundation and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University . There were 28 presentations, from which 13 papers appear in this volume. Languages discussed in these pages include: Vietnamese, Lao, Thai, Khmer, Zhuang, Chin (Lai), Jru' (Laven), Tsat, Gam-Tai, Ge-Yang, Chamic, Austronesian, Bahnaric and Katuic.
2007 ISBN 9780858835788
PDF File ix + 156 pp.

SEALS VIII: papers from the 8th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Edited by Mark Alves, Paul Sidwell and David Gil
PL E-2
A few paperback copies will be available shortly.
The 8th annual meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS VIII) was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia , 20-22 July 1998. The meeting was organised by David Gil with the assistance of the Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the Universiti Kebangsaam Malaysia . Of the papers offered to the meeting, 15 are presented here. The papers reflect studies in various linguistic sub-disciplines, and discuss a number of SEAsian languages, including: Bonggi, Hokkien, Lai, Malay (Modern and Classical), M'nong, Proto-Austronesian, Raglai and Vietnamese.
2007 ISBN 9780858835757

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