Terry Crowley

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Terry Crowley



Terry Crowley (1953-2005) was a linguist specializing in Oceanic languages, as well as Bislama, the English-lexified Creole recognized as a national language in Vanuatu. From 1991 till his death, he was a professor at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Previously, he was with the Pacific Languages Unit of the University of the South Pacific in Vanuatu (1983–90) and with the Department of Language and Literature at the University of Papua New Guinea (1979–83).

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An Introduction to Historic...

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Field Linguistics: A Beginn...

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The Design of Language: An ...

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Agnes Macphail and the Poli...

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An Introduction to Historic...

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Serial Verbs in Oceanic: A ...

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Canadian History: Pre-Colon...

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Bislama Reference Grammar (...

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Marriage of Minds: Isabel a...

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Beach-la-Mar to Bislama: Th...

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“It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today.”
Terry Crowley, An Introduction to Historical Linguistics



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