TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harvey,Mark
AU  - Mailhammer,Robert
TI  - Proto-Australian: Reconstruction of a Common Ancestor Language 
T2  - Studies in Language Change [SLC] ,
SN  - 9783111421445
U1  - 499.152 
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Australische Geschichte
KW  - Australische Sprachen
KW  - Historische Linguistik
KW  - Proto-Australisch
KW  - Verbreitung von Sprachen
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Australian Languages
KW  - Australian Prehistory
KW  - Historical Linguistics
KW  - Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory
KW  - Language Spread
KW  - Proto-Australian
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111421889
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111421889
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111421889/original
ER  -