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Historical linguistics in Australia: trees, networks and their implications

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: This paper presents an overview of the current state of historical linguistics in Australian languages. Australian languages have been important in theoretical debates about the nature of language change and the possibilities for reconstruction and classification in areas of intensive diffusion. Here are summarized the most important outstanding questions for Australian linguistic prehistory; I also present a case study of the Karnic subgroup of Pama-Nyungan, which illustrates the problems for classification in Australian languages and potential approaches using phylogenetic methods.

Source: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0013

Author: Claire Bowern

Institution: Yale University

Language: English

Topic: Australian Indigenous Culture and History

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2162467781

FWCI: 13.73

Cites: 67

Cited by: 114

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