Australian Languages

Classification and the comparative method

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Appendixes

Ch. 1 Introduction: subgrouping methodology in historical linguistics
Claire Bowern and Harold Koch

  1. Guidelines from the subgrouping workshop, Melbourne 2001

Ch. 4 The coherence and distinctiveness of the Pama-Nyungan language family within the Australian linguistic phylum
Geoff O'Grady and †Ken Hale

  1. Cognate density map
  2. Proto-Pama-Nyungan initials and their putative reflexes

Ch. 5 Pama-Nyungan: phonological reconstruction and status as a phylogenetic group
Barry Alpher

  1. Pama-Nyungan etyma
  2. Hypothesised phonological developments in some individual Pama-Nyungan languages of the Southeast
  3. Sources consulted in the compilation of Appendix Ch. 5:1, 2

Ch. 6 The Arandic subgroup of Australian languages
Harold Koch

  1. Proto-Arandic vocabulary

Ch. 8 Thura-Yura as a subgroup
Jane Simpson and Luise Hercus

  1. Thura-Yura birth-order names
  2. Thura-Yura comparative vocabulary

Ch. 9 The Yarli languages
Luise Hercus and Peter Austin

  1. Yarli comparative vocabulary

Ch. 10 Evolution of the verb conjugations in the Ngarna languages
Gavan Breen

  1. Comparative table of Ngarna nominals
  2. Comparative table of Ngarna verbs
  3. Comparative table of Ngarna pronouns

Ch. 11 The failure of the evidence of shared innovations in Cape York Peninsula
Paul Black

  1. Map of Cape York languages

Ch. 12 Diagnostic similarities and differences between Nyulnyulan and neighbouring languages
Claire Bowern

  1. Residue comparative vocabulary
  2. Nyulnyulan indirect object clitic data
  3. Nyulnyulan case markers

Ch. 14 Stem forms and paradigm reshaping in Gunwinyguan
Brett Baker

  1. Further relationships within Gunwinyguan

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