Proto-Australian
| Autor: | Mark Harvey, Robert Mailhammer |
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| EAN: | 9783111422206 |
| eBook Format: | ePUB |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | eBook |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 19.08.2024 |
| Untertitel: | Reconstruction of a Common Ancestor Language |
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| Schlagworte: | Australian Languages Australian Prehistory Australische Geschichte Australische Sprachen Historical Linguistics Historische Linguistik Hunter-Gatherer Prehistory Language Spread Proto-Australian Proto-Australisch Verbreitung von Sprachen |
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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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