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PL 610 Reconstructing Proto Koiarian: The history of a Papuan language family (SLC-7) Tom Dutton Further details
PL 609 Grammatical change: theory and description (SLC-6) Edited by Rachel Hendery and Jennifer Hendriks Further details
PL 608 A grammar of Abma: a language of Pentecost Island Vanuatu Cynthia Schneider Further details
PL 606 Mali (Baining) texts Tonya N. Stebbins with the assistance of Julius Tayul Available only as a PDF file on disk Further details
PL 605 Discovering history through language: papers in honour of Malcolm Ross Bethwyn Evans ed Further details
PL 604 From linguistic to sociolinguistic reconstruction: the Kamta historical subgroup of Indo-Aryan Matthew Toulmin Further details
PL 603 *Leo Tuai: A comparative lexical study of North and Central Vanuatu languages Ross Clark Further details
PL 602 The Austronesian languages Robert Blust Further details
PL 601 Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust Edited by Alexander Adelaar and Andrew Pawley Further details
PL 600 Worrorran revisited: the case for genetic relations among languages of the Northern Kimberley region of Western Australia William B. McGregor and Alan Rumsey Further details
PL 599 The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic: The culture and environment of ancestral Oceanic society 3. Plants Edited by Malcolm Ross Andrew Pawley and Meredith Osmond Further details
PL 597 and 598 (sold as a set of two) A Dictionary of pre-Angkorian Khmer and A Dictionary of Angkorian Khmer Philip N. Jenner. Edited by Doug Cooper Further details
PL 596 A grammar of Klon: A non-Austronesian language of Alor Indonesia Louise Baird Further details
PL 595 A reference grammar of Puyuma an Austronesian language of Taiwan Teng Stacy Fang-Ching Further details
PL 594 Serial verb constructions in Austronesian and Papuan languages Edited by Gunter Senft Further details
PL 593 Proto Mirndi: a discontinuous language family in northern Australia Mark Harvey Further details
PL 592 Toqabaqita - English dictionary Frantisek Lichtenberk Further details
PL 590 A grammar of the Pendau language of central Sulawesi Indonesia Phil Quick Further details
PL 589 Kalam serial verb constructions Lane Jonathan Further details
PL 588 Aspects of Lisu phonology and grammar a language of Southeast Asia Yu Defen Further details
PL 587 A grammar of Neve'ei Vanuatu Jill Musgrave Further details
PL 586 A Grammar of Maybrat: A language of the Bird's Head Peninsula Papua Province, Indonesia Philomena Dol Further details
PL 585 A descriptive grammar of the Bukawa language of the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea W. Eckermann Further details
PL 584 The grammar of Yalarnnga: A language of western Queensland Breen Gavan and Barry J. Blake Further details
PL 583 Semantic pragmatic and diskourse perspectives of preposition use: a study of Indonesian locatives Djenar Dwi Noverini Further details
PL 582 Speaking Kunjen:  An ethnography of Oykangand kinship and communication the Cape York region of northern Queensland Australia Bruce A. Sommer Further details
PL 580 A grammar of Pacoh: A Mon-Khmer language of the central highlands of Vietnam Mark J. Alves Further details
PL 579 A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary Professor Harry Shorto (1919-1995). Edited by Paul Sidwell Doug Cooper and Christian Bauer Further details
PL 578 Tiles in a multilingual mosaic: Macedonian Filipino and Somali in Melbourne Michael Clyne and Sandra Kipp Further details
PL 577 Nese: a diminishing speech variety of Northwest Malakula (Vanuatu) Terry Crowley. Edited by John Lynch. Further details
PL 576 Naman: a vanishing language of Malakula (Vanuatu) Terry Crowley. Edited by John Lynch. Further details
PL 575 Tape: a declining language of Malakula (Vanuatu) Terry Crowley. Edited by John Lynch. Further details
PL 574 The Avava language of Central Malakula (Vanuatu) Terry Crowley. Edited by John Lynch. Further details
PL 573 A descriptive grammar of Merei (Vanuatu) Ying Shing Anthony Chung Further details
PL 572 Papuan Pasts: Cultural linguistic and biological histories of Papuan-speaking peoples Edited by Andrew Pawley, Robert Attenborough, Jack Golson and Robin Hide Further details
PL 571 The many faces of Austronesian voice systems: Some new empirical studies Edited by I Wayan Arka and Malcolm Ross Further details
PL 570 Studies in Burmese linguistics Edited by Justin Watkins Further details
PL 569 Chamic and Beyond: Studies in mainland Austronesian languages Edited by Anthony Grant and Paul Sidwell Further details
PL 568 The phonology - morphology interface in Malay: An optimality theoretic account Ahmad Zaharanim Further details
PL 567 A grammar of Gayo: A language of Aceh Sumatra Domenyk Eades Further details
PL 566 A grammar of Jahai Niclas Burenhult Further details
PL 564 A dictionary of Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese) - English Alan N. Baxter and Patrick de Silva Further details
PL 563 Papers in Austronesian subgrouping and dialectology Edited by John Bowden and Nikolaus Himmelmann Further details
PL 562 Deixis and demonstratives in Oceanic languages Edited by Gunter Senft Further details
PL 561 Alive and kicking: Areyonga Teenage Pitjantjatjara Annie Langlois Further details
PL 560 A short grammar of Inanwatan an endangered language of the Bird's Head of Papua Indonesia Lourens de Vries Further details
PL 559 Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories Compiled by Gavan Breen Further details
PL 558 Innamincka Talk: A grammar of the Innamincka dialect of Yandruwandha with notes on other dialects Gavan Breen Further details
PL 557 Tibeto-Burman languages of Nepal: Manange and Sherpa Edited by Carol Genetti Further details
PL 556 Nyangumarta: A language of the Pilbara region of Western Australia Janet Catherine Sharp Further details
PL 554 I'saka: A sketch grammar of a language of north-central New Guinea Mark Donohue and Lila San Roque Further details
PL 553 The Duungidjawu language of southeast Queensland: Grammar texts and vocabulary Suzanne Kite and Stephen Wurm Further details
PL 551 A handbook of comparative Bahnaric Vol. 1: West Bahnaric Paul Sidwell and Pascale Jacq Further details
PL 550 Issues in Austronesian historical phonology Edited by John Lynch Further details
PL 549 The Bunganditj (Buwandik) language of the Mount Gambier Region Barry Blake Further details
PL 548 Borrowing: A Pacific perspective Edited by Jan Tent and Paul Geraghty Further details
PL 547 Balinese morphosyntax: A lexical-functional approach I Wayan Arka Further details
PL 546 A short morphology phonology and vocabulary of Kiput Sarawak Robert Blust Further details
PL 544 The Warrnambool language: A consolidated account of the Aboriginal language of the Warrnambool area of the western district of Victoria based on nineteenth-century sources Barry Blake Further details
PL 543 A phonetic and phonological description of Ao: A Tibeto-Burman language of Nagaland north-east India A.R. Coupe Further details
PL 542 Paiwan Texts Robert Early and John Whitehorn Further details
PL 539 A study of valency-changing devices in Proto Oceanic Bethwyn Evans Further details
PL 538 Early forms of Aboriginal English in South Australia 1840s--1920s Robert Foster Paul Monaghan and Peter Mühlhäusler Further details
PL 537 A dictionary of Buin a language of Bougainville Donald C. Laycock. Edited by Masayuki Onishi Further details
PL 536 Jingulu grammar: An Aboriginal language of the Northern Territory Robert Pensalfini Further details
PL 535 A grammar of the Hoava language Western Solomons Karen Davis Further details
PL 534 A dictionary of Koiari Papua New Guinea with grammar notes Dutton Tom Tom Dutton Further details
PL 533 Ùa Pou: Aspects of a Marquesan dialect Margaret Mutu with Ben Teìkitutoua Further details
PL 532 Dictionary of Kyaka Enga Papua New Guinea Norm and Sheila Draper Further details
PL 531 The phonetics of Wa: Experimental phonetics phonology orthography and sociolinguistics Justin Watkins Further details
PL 530 Collected papers on Southeast Asian and Pacific languages Edited by Robert S. Bauer Further details
PL 529 Between worlds: Linguistic papers in memory of David John Prentice Edited by K. Alexander Adelaar and Robert Blust Further details
PL 528 Tetun Dili: A grammar of an East Timorese language Catharina Williams-van Klinken, John Hajek and Rachel Nordlinger Further details
PL 527 A grammar of the Kuku Yalanji language of north Queensland Elisabeth Patz Further details
PL 526 Pijin: A dictionary of the pidgin of the Solomon Islands Christine Jourdan Further details
PL 525 Dharumbal: The language of Rockhampton Australia Angela Terrill Further details
PL 524 Languages of the eastern Bird's Head Edited by Ger Reesink Further details
PL 522 Araki: A disappearing language of Vanuatu Alexandre François Further details
PL 521 Taba: description of a South Halmahera Austronesian language John Bowden Further details
PL 520 Proto Central Pacific ergativity: Its reconstruction and development in the Fijian Rotuman and Polynesian languages Ritsuko Kikusawa Further details
PL 519 Issues in Austronesian morphology: A festschrift for Byron W. Bender Edited by Joel Bradshaw and Kenneth Rehg Further details
PL 518 The history and typology of western Austronesian voice systems Edited by Fay Wouk and Malcolm Ross Further details
PL 517 Languages of Vanuatu: A new survey and bibliography John Lynch and Terry Crowley Further details
PL 516 A grammar of Limilngan: A language of the Mary River region Northern Territory Australia Mark Harvey Further details
PL 511 Sourcebook on Tomini-Tolitoli languages: General information and word lists Compiled by Nikolaus P. Himmelmann Further details
PL 510 Anejom Dictionary John Lynch and Philip Tepahae Further details
PL 509 The linguistic history of southern Vanuatu John Lynch Further details
PL 508 An Erromangan (Sye) dictionary Terry Crowley Further details
PL 507 A grammar of Anejom John Lynch Further details
PL 506 Constraints on null subjects in Bislama (Vanuatu): Social and linguistic factors Miriam Meyerhoff Further details
PL 503 Spices from the East: Papers in languages of eastern Indonesia Edited by Charles E. Grimes Further details

Old series A–D: books still in print

PL A-85 Papers in Papuan Linguistics No. 2 (Franklin ed.) Further details
PL A-86 Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics No. 14: Tibeto-Burman Languages of the Himalayas (Bradley ed.) Further details
PL A-87 Papers in Papuan Linguistics No. 3 (Pawley ed.) Further details
PL A-89 Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics No. 15: Chamic studies (Thomas ed.) Further details
PL A-90 Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics No. 16 (Clark ed.) Further details
PL A-91 Papers in Pidgin and Creole Linguistics No. 5 (Mühlhäusler ed.) Further details
PL A-92 Papers in Austronesian Linguistics No. 5 (Tryon ed.) Further details
PL B-106 Theme Result and Contrast (Brainard) Further details
PL B-109 Selected Topics in the Grammar of Limos Kalinga (Ferreirinho) Further details
PL B-110 The Phonology of Karao (Brainard) Further details
PL B-111 The Verb Morphology of Mori (Barsel) Further details
PL B-115 A Description of Abun (Berry and Berry) Further details
PL C-78 Languages of Sabah (King and King eds) Further details
PL C-82 A Baruya-Tok Pisin-English Dictionary (Lloyd) Further details
PL C-118 Thematic Continuity and Development in Languages of Sabah (Levinsohn ed.) Further details
PL C-122 A First Dictionary of Koiari (Dutton) Further details
PL C-131 Further Aspects of the Grammar of Yanyuwa (Kirton and Bella) Further details
PL C-132 Katuic Comparative Dictionary (Peiros) Further details
PL C-133 Oceanic Studies: Proceedings of the First International Conference (Lynch and Fa'afo eds) Further details
PL C-134 A Dictionary of Kwoma (Bowden) Further details
PL C-138 Towards a Lexicogrammar of Mekeo (Jones) Further details
PL C-141 SICOL Vol. 1: Language contact (Tent and Mugler eds) Further details
PL C-143 Sinaugoro Grammar PNG (Tauberschmidt) Further details
PL C-144 Morphology Syntax and Cohesion in Nabak PNG (Fabian, Fabian and Waters) Further details
PL C-146 A Grammar of Hatam, Irian Jaya (Reesink) Further details
PL C-147 Wathawurrung and the Colac Language of Southern Victoria (Blake) Further details
PL C-148 The Interface Between Syntax and Discourse in Korafe (Farr) Further details
PL C-149 A Dictionary of the Mele Language (Atara Imere) Vanuatu (Clark) Further details
PL C-153 Bosavi-English-Tok-Pisin Dictionary (Schieffelin et al) Further details
PL C-156 Ura: A Disappearing Language of Southern Vanuatu (Crowley) Further details
PL D-67 A New course in Tok Pisin PNG (Dutton) Book and set of 15 CDs Further details
PL D-72 Bislama: An introduction to the national language of Vanuatu (Tryon) Book and set of 15 CDs Further details
PL D-79 Notes on Some Queensland Languages (Holmer) Further details
PL D-82 Lavongai materials (Beaumont ed.) Further details
PL D-84 Topics in the Description of Kiriwina (Lawton) Further details
PL D-86 Language of Development and Development of Language (Heryanto) Further details
PL D-89 Materials on Languages in Danger of Disappearing (Wurm ed.) Further details
PL D-90 A Linguistic Bibliography of the New Guinea Area (Carrington) Further details
PL D-91 The Bungku-Tolaki Languages of Southeastern Sulawesi (Mead) Further details
PL D-93 Grammatical Relations in Bahasa Indonesia (Vamarasi) Further details
PL D-94 Fundaments of Austronesian Roots and Etymology (Kempler-Cohen) Further details