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Proto-Australian
Reconstruction of a Common Ancestor Language
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- 502 pages
- English
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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.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Maps
- 1âIntroduction
- 2âMethodology
- 3âPhonology
- 4âNominals
- 5âVerbs
- 6âSyntax and the clitic complex
- 7âMembership of PA and subgroups
- Appendices
- References
- Person Index
- Subject Index
- Index