Australia: The Prehistory And Internal Relationships Of Australian Languages

Australia: The Prehistory And Internal Relationships Of Australian Languages Patrick McConvell, and Claire Bowern, 2010   Australian linguistic prehistory has lagged behind equivalent endeavours on other continents in part because of the dearth of grammars and dictionaries until recent times, when there has been a great deal of high quality work done. Australianist linguists have tended not to use the standard comparative method. In some cases, this was because it was prematurely judged...

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