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Proto-Australian : Reconstruction of a Common Ancestor Language / Mark Harvey, Robert Mailhammer.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Language Change [SLC] ; 24Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 486 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783111421445
  • 9783111422206
  • 9783111421889
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 499.152
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Maps -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Nominals -- 5 Verbs -- 6 Syntax and the clitic complex -- 7 Membership of PA and subgroups -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Statistical assessment of cognacy -- Appendix 2: Cognates -- Appendix 3: Nominal prefixation -- Appendix 4: Free pronouns and intransitive prefixes -- Appendix 5: Inflected verbal paradigms -- Appendix 6: PA reflexes – Individual languages -- References -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index
Summary: This book is the first full evaluation of the Proto-Australian hypothesis, which proposes that most Australian languages have a common ancestor: Proto-Australian [PA]. Using the standard methodologies of historical linguistics, the authors show that nearly all Australian languages descend from PA. Given that PA was a single language, it was spoken only in a small area of Australia. Its descendants have spread across the continent. Current theories of language spread do not offer clear motivations for large-scale spread in hunter-gatherer economies. This raises significant questions for analyses of Australian prehistory and archaeology specifically, and more widely for general theories of hunter-gatherer prehistory and language spread.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Maps -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 3 Phonology -- 4 Nominals -- 5 Verbs -- 6 Syntax and the clitic complex -- 7 Membership of PA and subgroups -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Statistical assessment of cognacy -- Appendix 2: Cognates -- Appendix 3: Nominal prefixation -- Appendix 4: Free pronouns and intransitive prefixes -- Appendix 5: Inflected verbal paradigms -- Appendix 6: PA reflexes – Individual languages -- References -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index

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This book is the first full evaluation of the Proto-Australian hypothesis, which proposes that most Australian languages have a common ancestor: Proto-Australian [PA]. Using the standard methodologies of historical linguistics, the authors show that nearly all Australian languages descend from PA. Given that PA was a single language, it was spoken only in a small area of Australia. Its descendants have spread across the continent. Current theories of language spread do not offer clear motivations for large-scale spread in hunter-gatherer economies. This raises significant questions for analyses of Australian prehistory and archaeology specifically, and more widely for general theories of hunter-gatherer prehistory and language spread.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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