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In:Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method
Edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 249] 2004
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 18 March 2004
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Table of contents

Acknowledgementsvii
Mapviii
Contributor’s addressesix
Forewordxi
Introduction: subgrouping methodology in historical linguistics1
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A methodological history of Australian linguistic classification17
Pama-Nyungan as a genetic entity61
The coherence and distinctiveness of the Pama-Nyungan language family within the Australian linguistic phylum69
Pama-Nyungan: phonological reconstruction and status as a phylogenetic group93
The Arandic subgroup of Australian languages127
The Ngumpin-Yapa subgroup151
Thura-Yura as a subgroup179
The Yarli languages207
Evolution of the verb conjugations in the Ngarna languages223
The failure of the evidence of shared innovations in Cape York Peninsula241
Diagnostic similarities and differences between Nyulnyulan and neighbouring languages269
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Revisiting Proto-Mirndi291
Stem forms and paradigm reshaping in Gunwinyguan313
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Combined references341
Language index365
Subject index373
Appendices379
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