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  • Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgements
  • Map
  • Contributors' addresses
  • Foreword
  • Lyle Campbell
  • 1 Introduction: subgrouping methodology in historical linguistics
  • Claire Bower and Harold Koch
  • 2 A methodological history of Australian linguistic classification
  • Harold Koch
  • 3 Pama-Nyungan as a genetic entity
  • Luisa Miceli
  • 4 The coherence and distinctiveness of the Pama-Nyungan language
  • family within the Australian linguistic phylum
  • Geoff O'Grady and Ken Hale
  • 5 Pama-Nyungan: phonological reconstruction and status
  • as a phylogenetic group
  • Barry Alpher
  • 6 The Arandic subgroup of Australian languages
  • Harold Koch
  • 7 The Ngumpin-Yapa subgroup
  • Patrick McConvell and Mary Laughren
  • 8 Thura-Yura as a subgroup
  • Jane Simpson and Luise Hercus
  • 9 The Yarli languages
  • Luise Hercus and Peter Austin
  • 10 Evolution of the verb conjugations in the Ngarna languages
  • Gavan Breen
  • 11 The failure of the evidence of shared innovations in Cape York Peninsula
  • Paul Black
  • 12 Diagnostic similarities and differences between Nyulnyulan
  • and neighbouring languages
  • Claire Bowern
  • 13 Revisiting Proto-Mirndi
  • lan Green and Rachel Nordlinger
  • 14 Stem forms and paradigm reshaping in Gunwinyguan
  • Brett Baker
  • Combined references
  • Language index
  • Subject index
  • Appendices (on CD-ROM accompanying the volume)
  • 1. Guidelines from the subgrouping workshop, Melbourne 2001
  • 4.1 Cognate density map
  • 4.2 Proto-Pama-Nyungan initials and their putative reflexes
  • 5.1 Pama-Nyungan etyma
  • 5.2 Hypothesised phonological developments in some
  • individual Pama-Nyungan languages of the Southeast
  • 6. Proto-Arandic vocabulary
  • 8.1 Thura-Yura birth-order names
  • 8.2 Thura-Yura comparative vocabulary.
  • 9. Yarli comparative vocabulary
  • 10.1 Comparative table of Ngarna nominals
  • 10.2 Comparative table of Ngara verbs
  • 10.3 Comparative table of Ngarna pronouns
  • 11. Map of Cape York languages.
  • 12.1 Residue comparative vocabulary
  • 12.2 Nyulnyulan indirect object clitic data
  • 12.3 Nyulnyulan case markers
  • 14 Further relationships within Gunwinyguan
  • 15 Sources consulted in the compilation of Appendices 5.1 and 5.2.