Description |
xvi, 460 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Clues to Australia's human past: pulling together the strands / Patrick McConvell and Nicholas Evans -- 2. Building on each other's myths: archaeology and linguistics in Australia / Sandra Bowdler -- 3. Comparative linguistics and Australian prehistory / Harold Koch -- 4. Genes, languages and landscapes in Australia / Neville White -- 5. On the correlation between linguistic and archaeological reconstructions / Ilia Peiros -- 6. Language classification and models of the peopling of the Americas / Ruth Gruhn -- 7. Dialect distribution and small group interaction in Greenlandic Eskimo / Michael Fortescue -- 8. Prehistoric cultural explanations for widespread language families / Peter Bellwood -- 9. Sprung from two common sources: Sahul as a linguistic area / Johanna Nichols -- 10. Structural parallelism and convergence in the Princess Charlotte Bay languages / Bruce Rigsby -- 11. The temporal interpretation of linguistic diversity in the Top End / Mark Harvey -- 12. Comparative flora terminology of the central Northern Territory / David Nash -- 13. Long lost relations: Pama-Nyungan and Northern kinship / Patrick McConvell -- 14. Macassan loans and linguistic stratification in western Arnhem Land / Nicholas Evans -- 15. A continent of foragers: Aboriginal Australia as a 'regional system' / Ian Keen -- 16. Chipping away at the past: a northern New South Wales perspective / Terry Crowley -- 17. Little Big Men: alliance and schism in northeastern New South Wales during the late Holocene / Luke Godwin -- 18. 'Worth a thousand words'? Words, images and material culture: a New England case study / Isabel McBryde -- 19. Cognate search in the Pama-Nyungan language family / Geoff O'Grady and Susan Fitzgerald -- 20. The distribution of large blades: evidence for recent changes in Aboriginal ceremonial exchange networks / Harry Allen -- 21. Small tools and social change / Robert Layton -- 22. The cradle of the Pama-Nyungans: archaeological and linguistic speculations / Nicholas Evans and Rhys Jones -- App. Alternative language and ethnic names |
Summary |
Annotation pending |
Analysis |
Aboriginal languages |
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Archaeology |
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Australia overseas comparisons |
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Cultural anthropology |
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History, 1801-1900 |
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History, Pre-1801 |
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Linguistics |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Publication of this work was assisted by a special publications grant from the University of Melbourne and The Australian Academy of Humanities |
Bibliography |
Bibliography : pages 423-453 |
Notes |
Also issued online |
Subject |
Pama-Nyungan language family.
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Language - Linguistics.
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Language - Linguistics - Language evolution.
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Language - Linguistics - Theory and criticism.
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Language - Sociolinguistics.
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Language -- Linguistics -- Language evolution.
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Language -- Linguistics -- Theory and criticism.
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Language -- Sociolinguistics.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Languages -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Languages.
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Anthropological linguistics -- Australia.
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Archaeology -- Australia.
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Comparative linguistics -- Australia.
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Language and culture -- Australia.
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Linguistic paleontology -- Australia.
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Author |
Evans, Nicholas, 1956-
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McConvell, Patrick.
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LC no. |
98107942 |
ISBN |
0195506707 (paperback) |
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0195537289 |
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