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Proto-Australian: Reconstruction of a Common Ancestor Language

Proto-Australian: Reconstruction of a Common Ancestor Language

Harvey, Mark
Mailhammer, Robert

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Language Change [Slc], Book 24

Miscellaneous LanguagesLinguistics

ISBN10: 3111421449
ISBN13: 9783111421445
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Aug 19 2024
Pages: 502
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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