Book contents
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Africa
- Part III Tropical Asia
- Part IV New Guinea and Australia
- 12 The Linguistic Situation in Near Oceania before Agriculture
- 13 Language, Locality and Lifestyle in New Guinea
- 14 Small Language Survival and Large Language Expansion on a Hunter-Gatherer Continent
- 15 Language and Population Shift in Pre-Colonial Australia
- 16 The Spread of Pama-Nyungan in Australia
- Part V Northeastern Eurasia
- Part VI North America
- Part VII South America
- Appendix A Preliminary Worldwide Survey of Forager Languages
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
15 - Language and Population Shift in Pre-Colonial Australia
Non-Pama-Nyungan Languages
from Part IV - New Guinea and Australia
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Book contents
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Africa
- Part III Tropical Asia
- Part IV New Guinea and Australia
- 12 The Linguistic Situation in Near Oceania before Agriculture
- 13 Language, Locality and Lifestyle in New Guinea
- 14 Small Language Survival and Large Language Expansion on a Hunter-Gatherer Continent
- 15 Language and Population Shift in Pre-Colonial Australia
- 16 The Spread of Pama-Nyungan in Australia
- Part V Northeastern Eurasia
- Part VI North America
- Part VII South America
- Appendix A Preliminary Worldwide Survey of Forager Languages
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
This chapter considers the evidence relating to significant shifts in land-language affiliations in Australia. In particular, it examines the issue of whether the evidence favors an analysis of significant shifts as atypical phenomena, arising from an infrequent co-occurrence of causal factors, or whether significant shifts should be analyzed as standard phenomena, arising from a more common co-occurrence of causal factors.
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